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To: tacticalogic

You need to elaborate on your question.


20 posted on 12/22/2004 4:00:15 PM PST by Ed Current (U.S. Constitution, Article 3 has no constituency to break federal judicial tyranny)
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To: Ed Current
From George Washington's Farewell Address:

The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield.

If Congress passes a particular law, and the USSC finds it outside their constitutional authority, and Congress may then simply override their objections, of what purpose is the process of amendment?

23 posted on 12/22/2004 4:10:38 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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