Re: Government churches should be constitutionally rabid

Said  Bob LeChevalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alberto Moreira) wrote:
>>Said  Bob LeChevalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
>>>There isn't really any local government in this country - all local
>>>governments are allocated powers by the state government and are part
>>>of the state.
>>
>>Sorry, no. That's not the way it's written in the Constitution of this
>>State of NH. 
>
>We've been through this once, when I showed you that the NH
>constitution and state law determines all powers that school districts
>have and do not have.  I am sure that I will find the same thing to be
>true for other aspects of local government, if I look.

The Constitution of NH says that all power originates in the people.
Here's Article I:

"All men are born equally free and independent; therefore, all
government of right originates from the people, is founded in consent,
and instituted for the general good."

And I may be wrong, but the only mention of Education in the NH
Constitution is that ill-fated Article 83 that's been sorely
misrepresented by our Supreme Court. And the Constitution doesn't
state what school district should or should not be. 

As to law, it's not dictated: it's established by the representatives
of the people. The power of the law is the power of the people, not of
its government. 


Alberto.