Posted on 03/30/2005 6:44:50 PM PST by watchdog_writer
Ultimately, yes, as they can amend the relevant Constitution. To state it more clearly, "we the people" are (and should be) the final arbiters. The legislature is more directly representative of "us", and so has more power. The legislature can amend the Constitution to overturn any judicial decision (in the case of states) or if Federal, with the approval of state legislatures. They can also remove judges or executives from office.
Fortunately (or unfortunately), these mechanisms don't effect any decision(s) made prior to the change of law.
But then, you knew that, didn't you, and are just trying to be cute?
The buck stops where you know you are breaking the law.
http://www.petitiononline.com/ijg520/petition.html
Petition to remove Greer
WHOSE law?
It's OVER.
Yes, it's over for Terri. She's been murdered.
The rest of us have to make sure that it never happens again. It's FAR from over.
Yes, she WAS murdered. But...it is NOT Jeb Bush's fault. It is the fault of the judges who thought they were GOD. Boy, did they ever overstep their bounds and...they will pay for taking a life one day when they meet their maker. Better them than me.
Car stealing had become epidemic. And this was a most reasonable way to deal with the problem. Car stealing was reduced -- at least no one stole idling cars at convenience stores anymore. Even when they did they didn't -- it was no allowed. But everybody stopped letting their car idle anymore, and shut the engine off, pulled teh keys, etc.
Everyone from the elite and rich poobahs on down to multi-racial but poor gollywogs cheered, and all though ver highly of themselves. A social problem had been addressed and solved.
Well -- in that state winters were freezing and falls and springs were cold. People had left their engines idling for good reason. With the new rules folks had to make adaptations. Some got up ten minutes earlier to get out and let their vehicles warm up, some didn't bother such extra warm-up and their engines had to bear cylcing on-off when cold. A few just stopped stopping at the local convenience store. Inconvenience one way, extra repair expense another, and a few less economic transactions a day the other. But the law is the law.
The local cops came to love the appearance of new residents and visitors from the warmer south, for they'd always be leaving the car idle on cold days. An easy ticket. A sense of empowerment, and extra revenue. Not too welcoming. But the law is the law.
Now all the engines being restarted produced extra special emissions on those cold mornings before the catalytic convertors got warm, and air quality went down. But the law is the law.
And a class of tricksters developed, employing all sorts of ruses to get folks to leave their cars -- just for a moment, but that was good enough. A valuable booty. And adept and rich they became -- that is after some initial troublements for a year or so.
You see some folks fought back to such takings, and their was some bloodshed. But the law is the law.
Served a public purpose, and very reasonable too.
To minimize such bloodshed, all weapons were outlawed in cars or carried by drivers. That worked well too. Sure some protested -- but the less guns the better. And the law is the law.
The new industry -- that of taking cars had developed and was a lucrative trade. The state economy improved! And the industry hired lobbyists and groomed politicians and political favor -- being as it was an industry created by a law. And the law is the law.
Refinements to the takings were developed. To improve the economy! Despite the booming takings business, it seemed the rest of the lollygaggers in the state were not quite pulling their weight. Transportation related costs were high for other industries and businesses, the air quality was poor and drove up health care costs. But the solution was to further benfit the one economic dynamo in that bleak economy. More takings!
One law improvement allowed billing the taken-from for any repair expense needed to bring the taken cars up to showroom condition -- good for business, quaility stuff! Another law development allowed more aggressive takings from out-of-staters. Especially vacationers. Why? Because when vactioners were careless with their property obviously that wuld encourage theft, so the remedy is to remove that risk by removing the porperty. Makes perfect sense! And the law is the law.
Well, some years went by and the whole state collapsed. No one ever dared venture into or near that state, and everyone who wasn't a taker moved out, and never looked back.
So the takers started taking from each other, got into horrible fights and all ended up slaughtering each other in those fights -- for takers WERE allowed, by law, to carry weapons -- it was mandatory. And the law's the law.
The last three ended up dying from starvation, alone and poor at opposite ends of the state. But they all obeyed the law to their dying day. For the law is the law.
Well, that emptied the state of any sentient, reasonable, law-abiding life, and that whole state and all it's idiocy was eventally forgotten by everone else on earth -- for none wanted to think about such dimwits who so honored the "law".
Forgotten and empty, that state even disappeared from all maps, histories and records ever published. Even the ink was ashamed of remembering it.
And whose fault was it? Include Jeb Bush 'et al.
#132 - Excuses excuses. (Jeb Pilate and the Republican Congress: Stood by while someone died)
Tick tock what is the holdup?
1,109 posted on 03/23/2005 3:04:27 PM PST by keysguy
Of course, we also know that the prominent Democratic Leaders continue to be dunces and hypocrites on the principle of right to life .
(A "Thank You" to those few Dems who 'helped' Terri)
#138 - Must Read Bump!
#145 ThUMP! - 'Color US stupid'
ThUMP! (or Ter-ump!) is a Terri-BUMP!
The buck stops when the innocent life is saved.
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