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To: Tau Food

The voters decide whether fetuses qualify as legal “persons” too. Right? Voters decide EVERYTHING and can never be wrong, right? Voters can never be overturned because their choice violates the Constitution, right?

That’s why the Constitution says that it can be amended by a simple majority of voters in any one national election, right? The principles in the Constitution are no more solid or binding than any one vote by the people - that’s what the Constitution says about amending it, right?


651 posted on 03/09/2013 6:22:59 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

Low calorie/information Tau Food.


654 posted on 03/09/2013 6:36:40 PM PST by TauntedTiger (Keep away from the fence!)
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To: butterdezillion
There are Constitutional procedures for amending the Constitution and there are Constitutional procedures for electing a president. The Supreme Court is not constitutionally authorized to do either.

No one disputes that there are constitutional qualifications to be president. Does anyone seriously claim that the voters and their electors are somehow incapable of applying those standards to candidates? Does anyone seriously claim that, even though the Constitution states that the president shall be selected by the electors, that the Founders secretly meant that the electors could choose only among candidates approved by the Supreme Court?

The voters and their electors are the final judges of the candidates' qualifications. If you want to argue that a candidate is unqualified, make your pitch to the voters and to their electors. In the case of selecting presidents, they are, in the words of one of my favorite recent presidents, the "deciders."

If you don't like that process, it can be changed through constitutional amendment and you can change the constitution so as to require each candidate to be screened by the Supreme Court or by a committee of librarians. But, until its changed, please accept the Constitution's procedural rules.

655 posted on 03/09/2013 6:37:44 PM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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