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		| Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) I thought of the timing one too, but it doesn't solve the problem of a legislature forced to do so (create civil unions) by a court after ratification.
 |  If a federal constitution limits such actions to legislatures, a court could not rely on a state constitutional provision to order a legislature to act.  The Supremacy Clause would have to dictate otherwise.
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