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To: Amendment10

That is great, if you now think that we can find a million people who agree with that with such vigor that they are willing to raise up arms and actually go to war with the government.

Because unfortunately in the real world, the Supreme Court has said it’s all good, and there’s no chance we’re replacing those people with justices that are going to change that — even when we DO replace justices, we end up with people like Roberts.

It is simply much easier for liberals, because it appears most people trained as lawyers have a tendency to end up being dictatorial a*sholes who love power. Who would have thought it?


9 posted on 06/30/2014 12:19:21 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Who would have thought it?

The Framers were well acquainted with man's tendency to accumulate power. It is why they divided authority between the states and the government they created.

Undivided power always ends up in undivided tyranny.

10 posted on 06/30/2014 1:38:02 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V.)
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"... and there’s no chance we’re replacing those people with justices that are going to change that ..."

As a consequence of parents not making sure that their children are being taught about the Constitution's checks and balances, please consider the following. Constitutionally ignorant voters have missed a good number of opportunities to undo the damage that Constitution-ignoring socialist FDR had done to the Supreme Court with respect to nominating activist majority justices in the 1930s and 40s.

More specifically, at any election cycle, all that conservatives have needed to do is to elect 2/3 conservative majority control of the Senate and also majority control of the House of Representatives. Then Congress would have been able to exercise its full power to impeach and remove activist justices, something that this country hasn't seen to my knowledge (corrections welcome), but is long overdue.

In other words, an arugably even worse enemy of the country than corrupt justices has been low-information, apathetic voters imo.

12 posted on 06/30/2014 9:24:17 AM PDT by Amendment10
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