[Publius]

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Earlier threads:

FReeper Book Club: The Debate over the Constitution
5 Oct 1787, Centinel #1
6 Oct 1787, James Wilson’s Speech at the State House
8 Oct 1787, Federal Farmer #1
9 Oct 1787, Federal Farmer #2
18 Oct 1787, Brutus #1
22 Oct 1787, John DeWitt #1
27 Oct 1787, John DeWitt #2
27 Oct 1787, Federalist #1
31 Oct 1787, Federalist #2
3 Nov 1787, Federalist #3
5 Nov 1787, John DeWitt #3
7 Nov 1787, Federalist #4
10 Nov 1787, Federalist #5
14 Nov 1787, Federalist #6
15 Nov 1787, Federalist #7
20 Nov 1787, Federalist #8
21 Nov 1787, Federalist #9
23 Nov 1787, Federalist #10
24 Nov 1787, Federalist #11
27 Nov 1787, Federalist #12
27 Nov 1787, Cato #5
28 Nov 1787, Federalist #13
29 Nov 1787, Brutus #4
30 Nov 1787, Federalist #14
1 Dec 1787, Federalist #15
4 Dec 1787, Federalist #16
5 Dec 1787, Federalist #17
7 Dec 1787, Federalist #18
8 Dec 1787, Federalist #19
11 Dec 1787, Federalist #20
12 Dec 1787, Federalist #21
14 Dec 1787, Federalist #22
18 Dec 1787, Federalist #23
18 Dec 1787, Address of the Pennsylvania Minority
19 Dec 1787, Federalist #24
21 Dec 1787, Federalist #25
22 Dec 1787, Federalist #26
25 Dec 1787, Federalist #27
26 Dec 1787, Federalist #28
27 Dec 1787, Brutus #6
28 Dec 1787, Federalist #30
1 Jan 1788, Federalist #31
3 Jan 1788, Federalist #32
3 Jan 1788, Federalist #33
3 Jan 1788, Cato #7
4 Jan 1788, Federalist #34
5 Jan 1788, Federalist #35
8 Jan 1788, Federalist #36
10 Jan 1788, Federalist #29
11 Jan 1788, Federalist #37
15 Jan 1788, Federalist #38
16 Jan 1788, Federalist #39
18 Jan 1788, Federalist #40
19 Jan 1788, Federalist #41
22 Jan 1788, Federalist #42
23 Jan 1788, Federalist #43
24 Jan 1788, Brutus #10
25 Jan 1788, Federalist #44
26 Jan 1788, Federalist #45
29 Jan 1788, Federalist #46
31 Jan 1788, Brutus #11
1 Feb 1788, Federalist #47
1 Feb 1788, Federalist #48
5 Feb 1788, Federalist #49
5 Feb 1788, Federalist #50
7 Feb 1788, Brutus #12, Part 1
8 Feb 1788, Federalist #51
8 Feb 1788, Federalist #52
12 Feb 1788, Federalist #53
12 Feb 1788, Federalist #54
14 Feb 1788, Brutus #12, Part 2
15 Feb 1788, Federalist #55
19 Feb 1788, Federalist #56
19 Feb 1788, Federalist #57
20 Feb 1788, Federalist #58
22 Feb 1788, Federalist #59
26 Feb 1788, Federalist #60
26 Feb 1788, Federalist #61
27 Feb 1788, Federalist #62
1 Mar 1788, Federalist #63
7 Mar 1788, Federalist #64
7 Mar 1788, Federalist #65
11 Mar 1788, Federalist #66
11 Mar 1788, Federalist #67
14 Mar 1788, Federalist #68
14 Mar 1788, Federalist #69
15 Mar 1788, Federalist #70
18 Mar 1788, Federalist #71
20 Mar 1788, Brutus #15
21 Mar 1788, Federalist #72

[BuckeyeTexan]

What would happen if the President were given veto power over Supreme Court decisions? How many Justices should it require to override that veto? Or should the matter then be placed before Congress? Is this even a workable system?

The rule of law would then become a political toy. Because the makeup of the Court enables us to predict the likely outcome of cases, presidential candidates would promise to veto upcoming decisions thought to be contrary to their party's political agenda. I don't think justices should (or would) change their interpretation of the law in order to override a veto. If they did, they'd be sacrificing any claim to objectivity or respect for the law. A SCOTUS decision cannot be subjected to political pressure. It would destroy our system of justice. It is not a workable system, IMHO.

Imagine the consequences of a SCOTUS decison that ruled ObamaCare to be unconstitutional. Obama vetoes it. The matter is sent to a Congress where both houses are controlled by Dems. Congress overrules the SCOTUS decision. ObamaCare becomes unconstitutional law by political fiat. No thanks!

The SCOTUS must be the final interpreter of the law. They must have the ability to send unconstitutional legislation back to the drawing board or to the grave.

[Bigun]

At 24, Hamilton points out the danger of the powers of the Legislative and the Executive branches ending up in the same hands.

We have seen very similar language previously and I quote Mr. Madison from Federalist 47:

No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

What do they mean by the term "same hands"?

I contend that they are talking about people with the same interests such as for example, librarians or plumbers, electricians or perhaps even lawyers. Oh! My gracious! It appears that if my reasoning is correct one such group HAS accumulated such power and that group is lawyers!

[Loud Mime]

•At 24, Hamilton points out the danger of the powers of the Legislative and the Executive branches ending up in the same hands..."

OK, a question for you. Somewhere in the anti-federalists writings I read where one was very critical of all powers being under the same roof: Legislative, Executive, Judicial and Corrective. I think it was written as an egg of tyranny that would soon hatch, or something like that.

Do you know who wrote of that?