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To: Noachian
Any direct democracy addition to the Constitution is a mistake. It was a mistake to make Senators be directly elected, and it would be worse to have SCOTUS justices be.
26 posted on 07/08/2003 5:48:50 PM PDT by William McKinley (Free Kobe!)
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To: William McKinley
Then you want to just sit back and let unelected justices with no accountability to anyone be our law-makers?

You want to hope and pray that they "do the right thing"? What if they don't? What if this consistent pattern of social rulings leads us down the path of Socialism and on to tyranny? What then?

You may be willing to let others define the way you live your life, but I prefer to have some say in the matter.

I love a representational Republic, and I don't want to change how Senators, or Congressmen, or Justices do their jobs. But, I DO insist on being able to fire them if they break the rules.

You wrote about RULES and the TRADITIONS of the dead. Yet, you're willing to do nothing when those rules and traditions are being whittled away little by little each year. Face facts. The Constitution is being changed each year by judicial fiat, while The People have no way of stopping it.

The Founding Fathers gave us a tool to use to stop such usurpation of power - it's the Amendment process. They didn't add it to the Constitution to take up space - they meant for it to be used.

I for one think it's time to use it.
28 posted on 07/08/2003 6:09:32 PM PDT by Noachian (Legislation without Representation has no place in a free Republic)
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