[mlo]

"After nine years of a bloody war the Founders set up a system that allows unelected judges to be the final arbiter of what is or is not constitutional."

Yes, absolutely. They intentionally made them unelected and gave them lifetime appointments. They intentionally made the courts a seperate but equal branch of government. This is the American system. I'm sorry that you don't like it, but it's supposed to be rule of law and not of men.

"The founders wanted to establish the same system of arbitrary tyranny they had just beat on the battlefield, right?"

No, that is your own mistaken characterization. It is not arbitrary tyranny. Arbitrary tyranny would be an executive that is free to do as he wills, with no checks on his power. They system they established is one of distributed power.

That does not mean that every person always makes the right decision. But that's the point. They didn't want all the power held by one person.

[sergeantdave]

Then you shouldn’t have any trouble citing the part of the US Constitution that gives judges plenary power to write and nullify laws and strike down congressional legislation. I’ll wait.

[kiryandil]

Read up on jurisdiction stripping and get back to us with your revised thoughts on your previous posts, mlo.

Can't believe you're a 98er...