Posted on 09/04/2015 4:15:38 PM PDT by yongin
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The author is a fool and a coward.
The writer’s argument is built on the fallacy that because a court says something it is “the law.”
Every principle this country was built upon says the exact opposite.
And the Constitution conveys no such authority to the courts.
I understand that this these moral issues are important. Life is sacred. Though out history marriage has always been between a man and a woman. I get it. Only these aren’t the issues for victory, a good marketer knows their audience.
If Trump knows his market he will revisit his stated opinion on this issue.
I hope he does that.
I agree, this is the battle are we are on good ground.
...”the Constitution conveys no such authority to the courts”...
I’m interested can you elaborate when you can take a moment please...and thank you. I tried to find something on that but that’s constitution “reading” laws which can often be too dutch for me!
This is more Ted’s issue.
I got “on line” in 1985 when I worked at NASA JSC
-- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 78, June 14, 1788
Very interesting post....thank you....
I especially liked the part...”Clerk Davis is the duly elected clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky and derives her authority from the citizens of Rowan Country. She remains the Clerk and the tyrant judge can not remove her from office, and he can not order her under duress to issue lawful marriage certificates.....
.... Furthermore, none of her underlings can do so either, since she has not authorized them to do so. Thus, the marriage certificates that are being issued now without her authority are null and void”...............
So it would then appear HER authority is being challenged when the office has gone ahead and issued licenses.
-- President Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address
The guy who wrote this is as cowardly as jeb.
“It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”
- Thomas Jefferson
[A]ll men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.
Samuel Adams
Human law is law only by virtue of its accordance with right reason; and thus it is manifest that it flows from the eternal law. And in so far as it deviates from right reason it is called an unjust law; in such case it is no law at all, but rather a species of violence.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, Ia-Ilae, q. xciii, art. 3, ad 2m.
Then how is it the courts are doing just that? or it appears to be....if they have no influence?
It just appears our courts, Judges, and Government are operating as they want to determine using laws and reasons which though might seem to prove their positions do not in fact.....with the attitude lets just see who will oppose after the fact...few oppose when it comes down to it.
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrong-doing by its prohibitions. And it does not lay its commands or prohibitions upon good men in vain, although neither have any effect on the wicked. It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal a part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely. We cannot be freed from its obligations by Senate or People, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it. And there will not be different laws at Rome and at Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and all times, and there will be one master and ruler, that is, God, over us all, for He is the author of this law, its promulgator, and its enforcing judge. Whoever is disobedient is fleeing from himself and denying his human nature, and by reason of this very fact he will suffer the worst penalties, even if he escapes what is commonly called punishment ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 - 47 B.C.
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either of them, are regulated by no certain laws, and are subject to no certain principles, and are held by no certain tenure, and are redressed, when violated, by no certain remedies, society fails of all its value; and men may as well return to a state of savage and barbarous independence.
Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
Those quotes are just great....I hope that others chime in here....thank you again....
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