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The Constitution is a joke, at least in 2005. The judiciary has essentially said that the document is what they say it is. For over 50 years, the courts have entirely abandoned original intent for positive law, which means the judges' interpretation of what is good for society.

I must wonder when diplomats from Britain, France, Russia, China, Germany, et. al., will start presenting their credentials to the Supreme Court rather than the White House, for that is where the real power resides in this country.

While the Terri Schiavo case was a state matter, I find it hard to believe that the executive and legislative branches on the Federal level would not cave as thoroughly as did the governor and legislature of Florida to Judge Greer and his cohorts in the judiciary.

You may rest assured that evangelical Christians will not come to power in this country - it isn't going to happen. There will be no "theocracy." But don't bet on the leftists not taking over sooner or later. America has moved steadily since the late 1800s away from limited government, traditional morality and individual responsibility toward an all powerful centralized regime, moral relativism, and collectivism. What the Schiavo case means is that the conservative, Republican, and pro-life opposition to liberalism and secular humanism is ineffective when their opponents hold the cards.

You may well get your leftist kooks, though they will be cleaned up outwardly and considered moderate centrists.

The Constitution is a joke, at least in 2005. The judiciary has essentially said that the document is what they say it is. For over 50 years, the courts have entirely abandoned original intent for positive law, which means the judges' interpretation of what is good for society.

Well said.

"You may rest assured that evangelical Christians will not come to power in this country - it isn't going to happen. There will be no "theocracy." " ~ Wallace T

The Founders made sure of that. They knew that there would always be plenty of religious kooks out there who think they speak for God, himself, and would impose their ideas on the rest of us in a heartbeat if they got the opportunity, just like they did in Europe. They blocked them with the Constitution.

And I will only "rest assured" that neither the religious left nor the religious right will be able to impose their religious conscience on me --- as long as the Constitution is doing what it was set up to do, ie: guard absolute [self-evident] truth:

The founders of the United States of America believed that all men were created with equal authority. ...

In America, one man’s liberty is not dependent upon another man’s conscience!

INTRODUCTION TO THE LIBERTY PRINCIPLES IN AMERICAN POLITICS by Stephen L. Corrigan - http://w3.one.net/~stephenc/fun.html