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To: Borges
The point is this: do we want to be ruled by judges who think they're Gods or will the people be masters of their own destiny. The struggle over judicial review is really a battle over who runs America. I trust the elected representatives of the people to interpret the laws more fairly than I do any judge to do so since in the final analysis, an elected representative remains subject to the people's oversight and is accountable to them for his conduct.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
56 posted on 07/09/2005 4:07:13 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
I trust the elected representatives of the people to interpret the laws more fairly than I do any judge to do so since in the final analysis, an elected representative remains subject to the people's oversight and is accountable to them for his conduct.

Mob rule worked so well in France in 1794, so let's try it here, eh?

60 posted on 07/09/2005 4:09:45 PM PDT by You Dirty Rats (Forget Blackwell for Governor! Blackwell for Senate '06!)
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To: goldstategop
"I trust the elected representatives of the people to interpret the laws more fairly than I do any judge to do so since in the final analysis, an elected representative remains subject to the people's oversight and is accountable to them for his conduct."

Right. Let's see there's Hillary, Durbin, Kennedy, Boxer, Pelosi, ect... The people's oversight sucks.

70 posted on 07/09/2005 4:16:47 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: goldstategop
I trust the elected representatives of the people to interpret the laws more fairly than I do any judge to do so since in the final analysis, an elected representative remains subject to the people's oversight and is accountable to them for his conduct.

But a representative unconstrained by judicial review would also be unconstrained by the limits placed on him by the Constitution as well. They could simply nullify any election by legislation that didn't go their way.

204 posted on 07/09/2005 11:37:51 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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