Posted on 04/04/2012 10:51:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dow, David R
Houston, TX 77005
University of Houston/law Professor
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Dow, David
Houston, TX 77005
university of houston/law professor DEAN, HOWARD (D)
President
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Dow, David R
Houston, TX 77005
Univ of Houston/Professor EDWARDS, JOHN (D)
President
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Bing, bing bing. We have a WINNER!
Oh, and don't forget feelings. Feelings are important too.
Thomas Jefferson was a hypocritical scribbler who financially screwed his male friends, secretly worked against Washington while he served in his cabinet, screwed his female slaves. The luckiest thing that happened to this country was that he was an ocean away in France while the constitutional convention was held and it took weeks for communication. He talked about civil rights and due process but tried to railroad Burr to the gallows; he talked about freedom but would not put any effort toward freeing the slaves even after he was retired from the Presidency,
He and his cohorts tried to close down free speech and press by prosecuting his opponents for telling the truth.
He closed down the military and had to fight the wars with the military that had been built up by Washington and Adams
he set up embargoes that helped ruin the economy and caused the New Englanders to consider Secession;
The Louisiana Purchase fell into to his lap and caused him to abandon his position regarding the extent of Executive Power.
Not surprised the Democraps use him and Jackson for templates for their excesses.
That is a fact. One thing about Romney, he knows a great thinker when he sees one, and Newt is bound to be involved in the future administration. That is not a bad thing.
I quit reading here. Such a statement shows he has zero understanding of the Constitution.
Ditto! These people have no clue!
I predict race riots by the summer. If they overturn Obama care the Race-baiter in chief and Sharpton types will declare that the Health Care law is a civil rights issue and stir up trouble! The DEMOCRAT convention in Charlotte is going to be a Powerder Keg....
But he wasn’t talking about one case.
“If the legislature acts to protect the poor and less powerful, its actions must be respected by the judicial branch.”
Here is where liberals brains have a total meltdown.
Not all laws that are “good” and “just” and designed to “protect the poor and less powerful” are therefore Constitutional based upon that criteria.
A liberal cannot get it through their head that not all things worth doing are worth having the government do - and a law could be a “good” law and still assume powers not granted via the Constitution - and are thus unconstitutional and SHOULD be struck down.
No gun stores within a few miles of a school might be (to some) a good law - but it assumes powers not granted by the U.S. Constitution - and it was struck down on THAT basis.
Those who thought the law was not Constitutional didn’t necessarily want there to be gun stores close to schools - they just didn’t want Congress to assume it had the power to regulate it.
Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808 – May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and the 23rd Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States.
Jefferson attempted to impeach a Federalist justice named Samuel Chase (17th April 1741 – June 19, 1811), a signer of The Declaration of Independence!
Jefferson's attempt was an epic fail because even a highly partisan US Senate lead by Jefferson's party refused to convict a sitting justice over political differences.
Where is Professor DB Dow when a federal court strikes down a popularly supported, bipartisan law or referendum, limiting marriage to a union between a man or woman or placing limits on a women's ability to kill her unborn child at will? What is DB Dow's position on the many Supreme Court decisions that have struck down popularly supported, bipartisan efforts to keep black people in the back of the bus,to prevent black people from voting, to keep black people from marrying white people, and to keeps schools and neighborhoods segregated? What about the Arizona Immigration Law that was passed by a significant majority of both houses of the legislature and enjoys popular support? What seems obvious to me is that the loony left defines an activist judge as a judge that rules against a liberal cause.
I don’t see any way in this world to avoid an armed conflict with these folks.
They seem hell-bent on subjugating us to their will, and will use any means, including force, in order to do so.
And here we sit, the won’t-be-subjugated, on the largest supply of privately held firearms and ammunition in history.
Is EMTALA constitutional?
Wow! What a bunch of crap.
I nearly saw a lib’s head explode once over my statement of
“simply being a good idea doesn’t mean that the government legally has the power to do it”
Impeach the Supreme Court Justices If They don’t Overturn Health-Care Law.
They simply cannot wrap their minds around the concept that the government doesn't have an unlimited mandate to wield unlimited power in innumerable ways - so long as it is in service of “a good idea” or accomplishes a “societal good”.
They really have no concept of a government of LIMITED and ENUMERATED powers.
Witness Kagan (IIRC) talking about ‘it sounds like a boatload of money rather than an imposition’ or whatever - in answer to a question as to the Constitutionality of the mandate. Sort of a “Hey it is a financial windfall - take the money - who cares if the government has the power to regulate in that fashion - taking the money would be a good thing”.
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