Patriots evidently still have problems with the Terria Shiavo case, probably for the same reason that they had problems with why the 5th Amendment didn’t apply in the Kelo v. New London land grab case imo. In both cases, patriots failed to understand that justices ultimately yielded to laws that Constitution-ignorant state citizens didn’t like because of general ignorance of 10th Amendment protected state powers, not that activist justices usually respect such powers.
More specifically, patriots got upset when justices sided with the City of New London, Connecticut because they didn’t understand that the 5th Amendment’s limit on Congress’s power that “the government” can only buy private land for public use does not apply to the states.
Likewise, and with all due respect to the family, friends and supporters of Terrii Schiavo, patriots got upset when the Supreme Court wouldn’t intervene in her case because they evidently didn’t understand that, since the states have never delegated to Congress via the Constitution the specific power to regulate life issues not expressly protected by the Constitution, the 10th Amendment was made to clarify that the Constitution’s silence about things like euthanasia, marriage and abortion, etc., means that they are automatically unique state power issues.
Again, lawmakers in both Florida and Connecticut made 10A-protected state laws that voters didn’t like essentially because Constitution-ignorant, football-watching voters typically don’t get interested in state legislation that probably won’t work in their favor until it is too late imo.
In fact, I suspect that Florida citizens who supported Terri still haven’t worked with Florida lawmakers to make Florida euthanasia laws that show more compassion to people like Terri.
So you’re saying via gobbledygook lawyerese slippery talk that states can pass laws that violate the Constitution and no one can do anything about it.
“In fact, I suspect that Florida citizens who supported Terri still haven’t worked with Florida lawmakers to make Florida euthanasia laws that show more compassion to people like Terri.”
It doesn’t matter now, comrade.
We have obamacare to take care of all the “special” cases.
And the elderly.
There is individual progress on guardianships. This began as a guardianship problem.
Many Terri supporters are deceased too. It took a toll seeing probably the first real exercise by homeland security to put down the American people. It was the first test of their ability to put us down. While they were killing Terri, we said, The country is over. Sometimes, fighting only delivers diminishing returns.
Tourism went down for about five years. Now the brits visit.