CONSTITUTING AMERICA: LESSON FOUR: THE CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE III: THE JUDICIAL BRANCH

TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 04/23/2010 | Gary P.

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Welcome to day four of our ninety-one day adventure. Today we look at look at the Judicial Branch of government. The text is as it was originally written:

Article III.

Section. 1.

The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

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It’s important to note that while a judge’s job includes saying what the law is, that does not imply that the law is anything a judge might declare it to be. If a judge is doing his job legitimately, what the law is, and what the judge says it is, will be one and the same. If the judge declares the law to be anything other than what it actually is, however, that doesn’t change what the law really is—it merely shows that the judge is not doing his job.