[Pontiac]

James Madison warned of this: “Were the power of judging joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control.” If judges could (do what they just did), the judiciary would become a democratically illegitimate super-legislature, unelected and usurping the important policy-making power reserved by the Constitution to the people.

Judge Learned Hand said it was okay.

The cowards in congress do nothing about it. You would think that they would jealously guard their power but they (especially the Democrats) would rather the unelected judges do what they want to do but are to afraid of public opinion and voter backlash to do themselves. Other things they just can’t get the votes in congress to do.

[Jacquerie]

The Senate served the Framers’ purposes until 1913.

The people foolishly made the Senate congruent with the House, and we’ve been living with the awful results ever since.

Our only hope is repeal of the 17th.