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To: EternalVigilance
Jefferson also had this to say about the courts:

At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Monsieur A. Coray, Oct 31, 1823

1,494 posted on 03/25/2005 2:27:01 PM PST by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: Types_with_Fist

Yep.


1,501 posted on 03/25/2005 2:29:06 PM PST by EternalVigilance ("I thirst.")
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To: Types_with_Fist

Forgive me if this has been mentioned already . I scoured threads to see if it was being discussed..Earlier Candi Crowley on cnn said something they were gonna bring up was This being a mercy Killing and ITs illegal in florida.... Has this been talked about ?


1,505 posted on 03/25/2005 2:31:33 PM PST by SavedAndForgiven
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To: Types_with_Fist

That's great! Where did you find it? In a book or on-line?


1,525 posted on 03/25/2005 2:36:22 PM PST by nanetteclaret (The LORD is known by his justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Psalm 9:16)
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To: Types_with_Fist

Oh so TRUE and applies here so well!

You know...the libs are trying so hard to get the constitution out of the schools that we better make our kids memorize it and teach them to defend it.

A little futuristic fiction by the lib media (maybe not) for everyone:

"The year is 2020. Our great nation has finally managed to abolish the constitution that hung around our necks like a yoke of slavery. The founding father's of our nation were not ALL christian and were in the minority, therefore controlled by the christians. Thankfully we can look to the future as our ruling judges make all of our hardest decisions for us.

After the new law to burn all histroy books was handed down and enacted, we can finally make new history based on what we see as we visualze the future of our great nation of gods."

Ok...I'm going to go throw up now.

We must stand by our God given right to defend the constitution of the United States!


1,530 posted on 03/25/2005 2:39:01 PM PST by SvdByFaith ("Lord, THY will not my will...")
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