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To: purpleland

The school choice argument is just as on point as the Terri example. Executive orders are issued with regard to government agencies, ceremonial issues or defense issues. They don't relate to individual people and cannot be in conflict with decisions of the judicial branch.

Again if you want the chief executive to be able to decree whatever strikes his fancy then I suggest again that you move to China as you appear more comfortable with government having the ability to dictate all facets of your life. In short, the reason the executive order issue hasn't been raised anyplace other than here, by you, is because it is not an option.


1,800 posted on 03/20/2005 8:47:30 PM PST by OneTimeLurker
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To: OneTimeLurker

The school choice argument is just as on point as the Terri example.

**The example you made of parental-rights to school choice in no way relates logically nor legally to the Terri Schiavo case. Your example is a rickity fruit basket - apples and oranges.

Executive orders are issued with regard to government agencies, ceremonial issues or defense issues. They don't relate to individual people and cannot be in conflict with decisions of the judicial branch.

**The judicial branch (the supreme court) is not elected. It's a lifetime thru senility sinecure; it's an autonamous opinate. However, the court is not quite a dictatorship and certainly it's not composed of infallible Gods.

Again if you want the chief executive to be able to decree whatever strikes his fancy

**You soar with presumptuous fancy by misrepresenting what I "want"! And, your motive in doing so? Sophomoric zeal?

then I suggest again that you move to China as you appear more comfortable with government having the ability to dictate all facets of your life.

*You're projecting. Your "fancy" is overly fallacious.

In short, the reason the executive order issue hasn't been raised anyplace other than here, by you, is because it is not an option.

*Presidents (and governors) can issue executive orders for clemency and stays of execution. Legislature and judiciary do not have those prerogatives.

**Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government
27. The Art of Governing

The Chief Executive of a republic is expected to govern in the public interest and not for his own enrichment or that of his family and friends. The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

"It behooves [a chief executive] to think and to act for [himself] and for [his] people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. [He need] only aim to do [his] duty, and mankind will give [him] credit where [he fails]." --Thomas Jefferson


1,804 posted on 03/20/2005 10:59:39 PM PST by purpleland (The price of freedom is vigilance.)
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