Thanks.
I think restoring the respect our State Constitutions deserve will go a long way to restoring our republic.
It has a whole article making marriage the responsibility of the Governor unless and until the legislature rules:
Article V. All causes of marriage, divorce, and alimony, and all appeals from the judges of probate shall be heard and determined by the governor and council, until the legislature shall, by law, make other provision.
It then has another article expressly laying out the fact that no branch shall exercise the power of another. For clarity it lists every possible ombination:
Article XXX. In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
But despite this the leftist political so called "justices" of the Massachusetts Supreme Court struck down the legislature's definition of marriage and decided of their own accord to change the definition as you can guess. In fact they were the first State to do this.
Everyone in Massachusetts took this shredding of their Constitution in stride because:
1. They are liberals and for them the result is all that matters. There are no principles other than their own personal opinion of what constitutes "justice".
2. Well that's what Constitutions do right? They give whatever the local name for the Supreme Court the right to strike down laws of the legislature, right? Not because it's in the text. Who needs to read the text. That's what it should say right?