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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
But, Congress did not create the Florida judiciary.

The Constitution most certainly is not a creation of the legislature, it is a creation of the people and the people alone have the right to amend it.

33 posted on 03/30/2005 9:11:21 AM PST by VaBarrister
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To: VaBarrister

A RINO crying about separation of powers? Arent Justices Kennedy and O Connor the Libs' new favorite RINOs?


41 posted on 03/30/2005 9:18:27 AM PST by stan_sipple
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To: VaBarrister
So, way back when the Constitution was created it was approved by popular vote? I don't think so.

A HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTION

The United States Constitution was constructed on September 17, 1787 after months of conflicting views, heated debates and clashing ideas finally yielded to compromise and thoughtful reconsiderations. The founders of the Constitution were delegates appointed by the state legislatures to represent each state's welfare. They had first convened in the Philadelphia statehouse as a quorom of 55 emissaries on May 25, 1787. Of the thirteen original states, only independent-minded Rhode Island declined to participate. The group's express original purpose was to revise the Articles of Confederation, our nation's first constitution that was constructed in 1777 after the Revolutionary War with Great Britain.

More Constitutional History

In theory you are correct that it is a creation of the people, but it was done through their representatives in much the same way as the people can amend it today. Speech, press and voting rights keep it functioning in the true interests of the people (at least that's the way it is supposed to work).

74 posted on 03/30/2005 9:39:14 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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