I would not like to see the current president ignore the court’s recent opinion on the second amendment.
And that is precisely the problem.
We need to make sure we know what we're getting into before we change longstanding precedent. Marbury v Madison is not a recent decision. It takes back to the days when some of the Founders were still living; Supreme Court review of the constitutionality of the laws is not something new or invented by the liberals.
In fact, as recently as the presidency of FDR, President Roosevelt was attacking the Supreme Court for being **TOO CONSERVATIVE** in overturning some of his New Deal proposals as unconstitutional.
Our Constitutional system of government has many checks and balances designed to make it very difficult to quickly change things in response to popular pressure. It's why we are a free republic, not a pure democracy. Many of the Founders had firsthand experience with pure democracy in New England and knew how dangerous it could be, even apart from their classical study of problems in Athenian democracy and popular rule in other classical Greek city-states.
We are conservatives. We do not believe in radical revolution, or “all power to the people.” Profoundly undemocratic institutions such as the Supreme Court and the filibuster rules in the Senate exist for good reason.
I am open to many ideas of how to overturn gay marriage. This one may work and I want to learn more. But I want to make sure that if we win on this battle in the fight, that we don't lose the war later by destroying the checks and balances intended to slow down change.