[MACVSOG68]

Or, if the states fail the federal government must act on behalf of the provisions in the 14th Amendment, as well as the earlier mainbody Constitutional clause that requires the federal government to guarantee each state a republican form of government.

So even though every level of courts at both the state and federal level find no 14th Amendment violation, the Congress on its own should simply take matters into its own hands? We obviously disagree.

Seems to me the states have had a week or so to fix the problem, and that's time enough.

Who makes the decision that Mae's 14th Amendment rights have been violated? The AG? And then what?

[muawiyah]

All the branches of the government have the power to determine Constitutionality of any action or law.

If they didn't the President wouldn't know whether to appoint or dismiss officers of government, and the Congress would not know to initiate tax bills in the House.

Those are only a few examples.

None of the courts were asked by the litigants to determine the constitutionality of any of the matters before them. Be interesting to see what they'd say about a county judge having authority to execute someone without any of the safeguards now in place to protect convicted criminals.