No, we're not. The founding fathers are the ones that set up this deal. I'm pretty sure thats where the Judicial branch originated.
That's why its so important that Obama gets the boot. He's the one that would love to have judges interpret constitutions however they feel at the time.
At least with Romney, conservatives will have some influence on his picks.
No, they didn’t set up “a deal” where executives get to ignore our constitutions just because some judge violated his own oath.
The Constitution requires every officer of government, at every level, to swear to support it.
Every elected official has a sacred duty to God and his fellow countrymen to do exactly that, even if every other officer of government is in breach of their own oaths.
Same thing is true in every State.
The idea that you’re going to have some influence over judicial supremacist Romney once he has his hands on power doesn’t pass the laugh test.
"Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?"-- George Washington, Farewell Address
"Oaths in this country are as yet universally considered as sacred obligations."
-- John Adams
"On the other hand, the duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will "preserve, protect, and defend the constitution." The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence, or defence; for the redress of grievances, or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people."
-- Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
"We have received it [the Constitution] as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation. We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here and our hopes of happiness hereafter in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution...? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault...No, we did not err!...The sages...have given us a practical and, as they hoped, a permanent Constitutional compact...The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace: it shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity..."
-- President Andrew Jackson, Proclamation of December 10, 1832
"We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"Consider well the important trust...which God...[has] put into your hands...To God and posterity you are accountable for [your rights and your rulers]...Let not your children have reason to curse you for giving up those rights and prostrating those institutions which your fathers delivered to you..."
-- Matthias Burnett