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To: Above My Pay Grade
In the end, the Supreme Court decides (for better or for worse) what is Constitutional.

No. The Constitution belongs to the people of the United States, not to the lawyers and politicians.

"Every word employed in the Constitution is to be expounded in its plain, obvious, and common sense, unless the context furnishes some ground to control, qualify, or enlarge it. Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise of philosophical acuteness or judicial research. They are instruments of a practical nature, rounded on the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings. THE PEOPLE MAKE THEM, THE PEOPLE ADOPT THEM, THE PEOPLE MUST BE SUPPOSED TO READ THEM, WITH THE HELP OF COMMON-SENSE, and cannot be presumed to admit in them any recondite meaning or any extraordinary gloss."

-- Joseph Story, Constitution (5th ed.) 345, SS 451.

And every officer of government is required to support the Constitution, not just judges.

“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution..."

-- Article VI, the United States Constitution

You might want to explain how you think all those officers of the various branches, at all levels, can possibly keep their own oath if they can't decide what the Constitution means, that only judges somehow have such ability and authority.

63 posted on 04/13/2012 8:12:54 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (You can be a Romney Republican or you can be a conservative. You can't be both. Pick one.)
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To: EternalVigilance

So you agree with President Obama that the Supreme Court does not have the authority to overturn laws?

Since you didn’t respond to my earlier questions, I will ask them again:

What actions do you propose to end abortion? Would you support actions that greatly reduce it (say by 90%) but didn’t completely ban it, provided taking such actions did not preclude a total ban in the future?

Is it “moral” to refuse to save 10 innocent lives that you have the ability to save, because there are 10 others that you cannot save?


69 posted on 04/13/2012 8:22:51 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The candidate I vote for will NOT have a CARE after his name.)
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