Posted on 01/29/2017 7:46:10 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
The Executive and the Legislative Branches of Government originally made most interpretations of the Constitution. The Court's constitutional interpretations originally were chiefly concerned with matters limited to the scope of its own internal operations. This according to judicial-historical scholar Robert Lowry Clinton in How the Court Became Supreme (First Things, January 1999).
President Andrew Jackson quite constitutionally refused to enforce Worcester v. Georgia (1832), allegedly saying "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" (This derives from Jackson's comments on the case in a letter to John Coffee, "…the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born [birth-dead], and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate.")
President Nixon could have refused to enforce the 1973 Judicial coups d'etat, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, but Nixon said "Abortion is necessary when you have a Black and a White.
Now in simply enforcing existing border/immigration laws, President Trump may pull another rabbit out of his hat, summarily steamrolling over the Courts, including the Supreme Court whose Chief Justice John "It's a Tax" Roberts already yielded court power to the Executive in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012), the "Affordable Care Act" Obamacare decision.
("Old Man River" Paul Robeson was running around Uncle Joe Stalin's Russia giving America's ruling 60 Families a black eye in the press, Congress wouldn't stand up to Dixiecrats to render African-Americans educational justice, "Seperate But Equal" was business as usual, so the Supreme Court stepped in, doing what Congress should have done, but as a power-grabbing pretext toward today's condition of minutely regulating every infinitesimal aspect of Americans' lives, "peoples selling themselves into slavery and marching back out again" as GK Chesterton put it in The Everlasting Man.)
"Miscegeny" is an early example of Orwellian NewSpeak, since if God didn't want people of the same human race, but of ancestry from different parts of the world to be able to have children, he would have made their progeny sterile, like the offspring of horses and donkeys as mules. The Tower of Babel story shows how God originally wanted all people to be together.
And the judiciary is very well aware of their limitations. The only enforcement mechanism they have is the executive branch. Congress on the other hand has money. Brown vs Board put the judiciary on really thin ice until Ike bailed them out.
The Courts have no authority outside the country, but habeas corpus applies to U.S. airports unless it is suspended.
The tower a Babel the races or groups were separated. When did God order them back together ? Answer, he didn’t. Do we know better than God ? Of course not. Not saying the different groups can’t have interaction but it very often leads to conflict and nothing will ever change that. Except when Christ returns.
GEORGIA complied with Worcester v. Georgia. No enforcement was required.
The Tower of Babel story shows how God originally wanted all people to be together.
Gen 11:4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”
It was the people that wanted to be together. Why? to bring glory to themselves AND to retain power. If people scattered there would be no centralized power.
There is more to it than that and I would encourage reading before and after the above. Maybe even the whole Bible?
Oh, Good Grief. Reagan was president when Roe v. Wade was passed. He appointed Sandra Day O’Conner who was the swing vote.
Amen.
Agreed, the tower of Babel was a ziggurat built by people uniting against God. God scattered them and confounded thier languages, making it more difficult for them to unite under one cause or code against him. He chose a people to bestow His own code/law upon, and thus is the history of Israel set in motion.
Check your history books. Roe vs Wade was decided in 1973. Ronald Reagan was first inaugurated in 1981. O’Connor was nominated to the US Supreme Court in 1981. I am not a Sandra Day O’Connor fan, but she could not have voted for Roe vs Wade as a Supreme Court Justice.
The court’s only job is to appropriately translate what the law says in real life cases. The court’s job is not to make comments on the law. If a law then contradicts in their views the language of the constitution, then their job is to advise congress to reword it and to tell people they do not have to follow it in those cases.
The only job of the Supreme court was to translate the law and decide if people had to follow it or not. It never was meant to impose laws, but to RESTRICT THEM!
That would be great! Deport those egghead judges to the other side of the southern border.
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