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To: Law

Treason at the worst, they should be Impeeched and removed from the Bench Immediately. They have introduced Foreign interpretation into US LAW!!


3 posted on 05/18/2005 7:33:02 AM PDT by 26lemoncharlie ('Cuntas haereses tu sola interemisti in universo mundo!')
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To: 26lemoncharlie; cripplecreek
More wisdom from Thomas Jefferson, this time in 1815, reproduced by Justice Parker:

"The ... question, whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law, has been heretofore a subject of consideration with me in the exercise of official duties. Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the executive or legislative branches. ...

The constitutional validity of the law or laws again prescribing executive action, and to be administered by that branch ultimately and without appeal, the executive must decide for themselves also whether, under the Constitution, they are valid or not. So also as to laws governing the proceedings of the legislature, that body must judge for itself the constitutionality of the law, and equally without appeal or control from its coordinate branches.

And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities."

7 posted on 05/18/2005 7:47:46 AM PDT by Law ("...all who hate me love death" Proverbs 8:36b)
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