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To: AmishDude

The laws belong to the people...?
Experts in Con Law aren't "people"? Scalia and Thomas aren't "people"?
So it is the "people" who should decide Supreme Court cases? So if the "people" decide that that the Constitution protects the right to abortion, then Roe should be upheld?


2,407 posted on 10/27/2005 11:16:23 AM PDT by dinoparty (In the beginning was the Word)
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To: dinoparty
The laws belong to the people...? Experts in Con Law aren't "people"? Scalia and Thomas aren't "people"?

No they are not. They are precisely not "the people". They are the government, the elite, the rulers.

Stephen Breyer used the same argument as you to justify his appeal to foreign law and to reject originalism. He was "the people" deciding for all of us.

The Supreme Court did not get this wacky when its members were often chosen from the ranks of retired Senators.

2,463 posted on 10/27/2005 11:30:56 AM PDT by AmishDude (Welcome to the judicial oligarchy.)
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