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To: StoneColdGOP
What happened to three [separate] branches of government?

According to Mark Levin, that changed way back in 1803

Well, there needs to be re-balancing of the system. The Constitution is fine. The problem is the way we have operated. Judicial review isn't in the Constitution. It came about in 1803 in Marbury v. Madison. Given that, the Supreme Court and the other courts should be very careful about how they exercise their power. They are not anymore. In fact, I cannot think of any area of life that the court doesn't intervene in or that the court doesn't think it can intervene in.

I can tell you that the Framers could never have imagined a court this powerful, and never would have authorized the court to do this sort of thing. The Constitution creates a silhouette when it comes to the judiciary. It is up to Congress to paint the picture. And the idea that this silhouette turns out to be more powerful than the other two branches in almost every respect is absurd.


161 posted on 03/21/2005 1:05:25 PM PST by syriacus (Why ask for physician-assisted-suicide in OR, when you can save money by "peacefully" starving?)
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To: syriacus
The Constitution creates a silhouette when it comes to the judiciary. It is up to Congress to paint the picture. And the idea that this silhouette turns out to be more powerful than the other two branches in almost every respect is absurd.

Letting judges rule the country is a little like parents letting their teenage children run the family.

188 posted on 03/21/2005 1:13:08 PM PST by syriacus (Why ask for physician-assisted-suicide in OR, when you can save money by "peacefully" starving?)
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To: syriacus

I'm glad you pointed out Marbury vs. Madison set precedence, which clearly, is not in the US Constitution. For over two hundred years, congresses and presidents have acquiesced to the Supreme Court to decide what's Constitutional because of political expediency.


285 posted on 03/21/2005 2:00:01 PM PST by demlosers (Soylent Green is made in Florida)
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