[Jacquerie]

The Scotus gets away with what it has these past 70 years because we the people, through our representatives have allowed it to.

There is a long train of philosophers from Cicero, to St. Thomas Aquinas, Blackstone, Locke and others who escape me at the moment that argued the existence of law above government. Governments get into trouble when they deny the people their Natural Rights. I think we are witnessing in our country a great awakening, a grass roots resistance to an out of control government and a rekindling of patriotism.

That our Constitution is much abused does not detract from what it is, the best ever governing document in history.

[AmericanHunter]

“That our Constitution is much abused does not detract from what it is, the best ever governing document in history.”

That is true but, it does render the constitution meaningless when it is routinely ignored as it is today.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Agreed. It's often stated that the Supreme Court is the final arbiter of things Constitutional. That is a power they arrogated to themselves. This is supposedly the "check" on the other branches. Yet the other branches are likewise entitled to their own "check" on the other branches. The executive branch has the authority to ignore the dictates of the judicial branch, the legislative branch can enforce compliance through threat of impeachment. The Congress can also exercise its check on the judiciary also through impeachment.

As direct representative of the People, it is high time Congress stopped being directed by an unelected bureaucracy of a single deciding justice-king.