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To: Bhoy
If only more executives could do so.

Great para from the column:

“We need to see legislators exhibit a more adversarial relationship with the courts. You see, it wasn't supposed to be that the courts ruled all they surveyed. Our system has been warped into imagining that the courts are the final word on everything. This was not supposed to be the way it worked. Courts were merely meant to read the law and adjudicate cases accordingly. And if a court ruled something un-constitutional, then it was then back in the legislature's court to write a law that is Constitutional. Unfortunately, we've lost the idea that the legislatures and executives of our political system are supposed to fulfill their own roles as leaders and lawmakers. Unfortunately, they've all too often abdicated roles to the often unelected and unaccountable courts.”

54 posted on 09/26/2010 11:14:47 AM PDT by Jacquerie (We are not subjects, we are citizens – Congressman Mike Pence)
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To: Jacquerie
And if a court ruled something un-constitutional, then it was then back in the legislature's court to write a law that is Constitutional.

Or not, if the legislators disagree with the court's opinion in that particular case.

57 posted on 09/26/2010 11:23:48 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.)
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