U.S. Constitution & Congress: Where’s their power to get involved in Schiavo case?

U.S. Constitution via House of Representatives website ^ | 3/21/05

[Luis Gonzalez]

Florida law does not recognize common law marriages.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"I live in a country that owes its very existence to a bunch of people who overthrew their government just because they thought the f#%&ing taxes were too high, so this high-minded, sanctimonous crap about the "rule of law" and the "legal system" doesn't mean a damn thing to me in."

The very essence of liberal mentality.

I want what I want, screw the law.

Al Gore won in your book, didn't he?

[Alberta's Child]

The very essence of liberal mentality.

That attitude is the foundation of this country's existence, so I don't know what your point is.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Let's take YOUR attitude here, shall we?

You're pissed off that a Court overturned duly enacted law in the case of "anal sex" and acted on how they "felt" about the law, and you're pissed that this Court has adjudicated in accordance to the duly enacted laws of the State of Florida, in spite on how he may "feel" about the laws.

In other words...you're pissed off at Courts that reach decisions based on anything other than how YOU feel about the law.

Liberal to the core.

[Alberta's Child]

I do not argue these issues from a legal standpoint, but from rational principles as they apply to the legal matters at hand

If the "due process clause" of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constutution does not protect the life of a person who is being starved to death despite no clear indication that this would have been her wishes, then the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution doesn't mean a damn thing.

Quite frankly, this pretty much seals in my mind the notion that the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't mean a damn thing, either.

From the movie Last of the Mohicans:

British Officer (attempting to recruit a militia from a frontier village, to help the British fight the French): "You call yourself a patriot, and loyal subject to the crown?"

Nathaniel (a.k.a. Hawkeye) (taking sides with those colonials who don't want to leave their families unprotected on their frontier farms): "I don't call myself subject to much at all."

[Luis Gonzalez]

"I do not argue these issues from a legal standpoint."

And you don't want the Courts to do so either.

[Alberta's Child]

Of course I do. If the state of Texas had passed a law codifying protection for acts of sodomy instead of criminalizing it, I would have been very consistent in stating that the U.S. Supreme Court had no business in hell overturning it.

The Terri Schiavo case is a matter of life and death, not a matter of tax policy, public morals, etc. As such, it is a case involving a "first principle" that is the underlying foundation of everything this nation stands for.

[tame]

f.y.i.

[tame]

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