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To: Jim Robinson

Amen. The Judiciary was supposed to be the "least dangerous branch." From Federalist No. 78: (http://federalistpatriot.us/fedpapers/fed_78.html)

"...Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments...."

It's time to re-establish the proper boundaries of the three branches.


75 posted on 03/02/2005 1:51:19 PM PST by Conservative Goddess (Veritas vos Liberabit, in Vino, Veritas....QED, Vino vos Liberabit)
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To: Conservative Goddess

Ms. Goddess : Scalia quotes Fed 78 in his dissent!
See - you think just like one of the GOOD justices. See the link to the decision above. Scalia's dissent is at the end...


88 posted on 03/02/2005 1:57:22 PM PST by BigEdLB (BigEd)
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