Having been a policeman, you often run into the conflict between doing what is ‘legal’ and doing what is just and right.
Before there were cameras everywhere LEO’s could decide between them in particular street incidents; it was called ‘discretion’.
Can’t do that anymore.
But for secession, ask yourself, all of the BS foisted on We the People by Congress for the past 50 years...Was it ‘legal’? Certainly. Was it Just or Right? Well..
Most of it was unconstitutional, too.
The question of the day/week/month/Year
“But for secession, ask yourself, all of the BS foisted on We the People by Congress for the past 60 years...Was it ‘legal’? Certainly. Was it Just or Right? Well..
... all of the BS foisted on We the People by Congress for the past 50 years...Was it ‘legal’? Certainly.
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I’m not so sure about that legality, bakenenko.
The Constitution is noteworthy in part because it doesn’t outlaw what the gummint can do (“The KING shall not murder peasants without due process.”) so much as it lists exactly what the gummint CAN do and forbids everything else. The Tenth Amendment clearly states that powers not given to the central gummint by the Constitution belong to the states or the people.
Congress has hideously abused and obliterated that restriction. They seem to think a majority in Congress allows them to do any-damn-thing they want. There is not one aspect of American life, from your toothpaste in the morning to your pillow at night, that Congress doesn’t tax, control, regulate or prohibit.
I would love to see a Supreme Court justice sit down and start tearing page after page out of a stack of Federal law books.