Posted on 09/03/2015 4:48:11 AM PDT by Zakeet
A Kentucky clerk is in the news for refusing to issue marriage licenses for gay couples. Gays and the political elites are condemning her for not upholding the “law”.
This is the latest example of the elites using the “law” to crush anyone who stands in their way.
The problem is that American is no longer a nation of laws but a nation run by the whims of men, at least at the highest levels.
When the Supreme Court follows the dictates of the “Living” Constitution which basically says that whatever the Court thinks is right is right we no longer have a democracy and we no longer have the rule of law.
The role of the Supreme Court is the same as the role of any other court; to interpret the law in light of the intent of those who, through the Democratic process, passed the law. A judge who ignores the meaning of a law and instead imposes his own ideals is not a judge but a dictator.
When the president uses his pen and his phone while ignoring the Constitution or renames treaties “agreements” and gets away with it, we no longer have the rule of law.
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The Constitution is essentially a contract between the people and the government. The people agree to follow laws that are enacted pursuant to the processes demarcated in the Constitution and the government agrees to be bound by the limitations enshrined in the Constitution.
Whenever the president or the Supreme Court ignore the Constitution that contract between the people and the politicians is violated.
Yet we live in an age where only the elites are allowed to break the contract while the people are expected to acquiesce without objection to the new “laws”.
There is a word for that; tyranny.
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> “The problem is that American is no longer a nation of laws but a nation run by the whims of men, at least at the highest levels.”
Truth. We cannot obey unjust “laws” put into place by unjust men. Even MLK made this point.
In all my years of life, I ain’t never given any solid standing of any kind to queers, period.
In all my years of life, a Communist has always been someone to despise and never respect.
As a student of history, if someone said that they are under ‘G_d’s authority’, I’d be checking my six. Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, and Whitefield are examples that come to mind, and if the legend is true as done by the movie, to the words of the individuals, the British soldiers at Rorke’s Rift.
It’s time for an American Spring where the people retake control of our country and the Constitution is adhered to or amended if the people, not the elites, think it needs to change.
Folks are coming around. Article V before we can't.
Mr. Trinko never states the simple fact that the supreme court rulings do not create/change/void laws.
Yup. These judges are basically acting as tyrants operating outside the limits of the constitution. They’re quickly sliding into the realm of fascist enforcers.
Cruz gets it. Praying Trump does too. We’ll never get our liberty back until the scotus and the judiciary are reined in.
Give me liberty or give me death!
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