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To: Modernman
Every human being has fundamental rights that cannot be justly infringed. This is the founding philosophy of our republic.

Why even bother with a judiciary then, if we're all free to ignore court orders as we see fit?

The question to ask is, why even bother with a judiciary if it will not itself follow the law?

The onus needs to be on the judges to follow the law, not on citizens to surrender their inalienable rights to perpetuate the illegal usurpation of legislative power by the judiciary.

39 posted on 02/17/2004 12:16:45 PM PST by thoughtomator ("What do I know? I'm just the President." - George W. Bush, Superbowl XXXVIII halftime statement)
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To: thoughtomator
Every human being has fundamental rights that cannot be justly infringed. This is the founding philosophy of our republic.

I have to ask the question again: How do you propose that we go about determining when fundamental rights have been unlawfully infringed upon? (and remember, no right, not even fundamental rights, are absolute) There needs to be a mechanism that is better than "everyone gets to decide for themselves." If you can think of any system other than an independent judiciary (which, granted, makes mistakes sometimes)which balances all of the competing factors.....

40 posted on 02/17/2004 12:24:33 PM PST by Modernman ("When you want to fool the world, tell the truth." -Otto von Bismarck)
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