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Posted on 03/30/2005 3:47:59 PM PST by perfect stranger
LOL! Also loved the comment about only one god :-)
Good job Anne!
But people even stupider than lawyers have picked up on the vague rumblings from "most consistent constitutionalist" aspirants and begun to claim that Congress' action is an affront to "limited government."
Of course, the most limited of all possible governments is a king. We don't have that sort of "limited government." What we have is divided government: three branches of government at the federal level and 50 states with their own versions of checks and balances.
Or at least that was the government designed for us by men smarter than we are. We haven't had that sort of government for decades.
Alexander Hamilton's famous last words in "The Federalist" described the judiciary as the "least dangerous branch," because it had neither force nor will. Now the judiciary is the most dangerous branch. It doesn't need force because it has smoke and mirrors and a lot of people defending the moronic scribblings of any judge as the perfect efflorescence of "the rule of law."
It appears Terri will only get her de novo review posthumously, and in the court of public opinion.
I expect more facts about her mistreatemnt will be released to the public once her family no longer has the need to try to protect her from any further abuse at the hands of her adulterous spouse.
Great article by Ann!
Bears repeating.
OK, so this bear repeated it.
Yes, but only helpless people. A growing trend that seems to follow socialized medicine. People who are valuable to the state need not be wantonly killed.
But then, you're smarter than the average bear.....
Its unfortunate that Nazi/Hitler comparisons have been so flippantly overdone over the decades. It tends to obscure the eerie growing similarity between the contemporary Left wing and the early stages of the National Socialist movement in 1930's Germany.
But I don't think its fair to call them Nazis at this point. And I pray it never becomes so.
Why thank you. There's advantages to low standards. If my screen name were AndyTheGenius I would be in trouble.
Here's the thought that's been on my mind regarding separation of powers:
If we play word games like the Left does, then when did the power of the courts morph from issuing OPINIONS to issuing RULINGS or ORDERS or DECREES?
If the Executive has the power of ACTING (executing), then the Judiciary issuing RULINGS is usurping the power to act reserved to the Executive.
There can be only one ruler in a Republic, and that is the elected executive. The Legislature makes law, the Executive enforces law, and the Judiciary offers OPINIONS on law, not decrees, orders, or rulings. The Executive should be free to accept or reject the OPINIONS of the Judiciary.
-PJ
I'm sorry to nitpick, but wouldn't it be more proper to say "the Judiciary offers legal opinions about specific cases". Their opinions on the laws themselves are supposed to be irrelevant unless Congress specifically asks for it.
For cases where the death penalty is given, it is the executive that can pardon the convict, not the courts. The courts can stay the execution temporarily, or reverse the sentence, but it's the Executive thant can grant clemency.
Aren't the police that the courts rely upon a part of the Executive Branch (under the Attorney General), and not the courts? How did the police in Florida get to enforce the court order without the Executive branch authorizing it? Why couldn't the Florida Attorney General order the police to stand down?
-PJ
LOL
"...Polls claim that a majority of Americans objected to action by the U.S. Congress in the Schiavo case as "government intrusion" into a "private family matter" – as if Judge Greer is not also the government. So twisted is our view of the judiciary that a judicial decree is treated like a naturally occurring phenomenon, like a rainbow or an act of God.See also, from Today's Toons 3/30/05:Our infallible, divine ruler is a county judge in Florida named George Greer, who has more authority in America than the U.S. Congress, the president and the governor.
No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! " - Ann Coulter
Ann at her best! Thanks for posting.
"...Polls claim that a majority of Americans objected to action by the U.S. Congress in the Schiavo case as "government intrusion" into a "private family matter" – as if Judge Greer is not also the government.pingSo twisted is our view of the judiciary that a judicial decree is treated like a naturally occurring phenomenon, like a rainbow or an act of God." - Ann Coulter
Disappointing nonsense from someone who usually knows better. Must be pushing book sales to the yahoos.
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