The other point is that if Jerry Brown is correct, then Prop. 17, which insulated the death penalty from constitutional challenge, is also unconstitutional. Not even the California Supreme Court went so far as to say the voters could not overrule it on a life and death matter. If they buy it, it will be a new height in judicial activism, since the constitution will no longer control any branch of government. And the people will effectively cease to be the source of its power and legitimacy. That's a novel reading of American law, that taken to its logical conclusion sets us down the road towards dictatorship.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Thanks for the additional examples!
RE: "down the road towards dictatorship"
Bad? Depends upon the nature of the dictatorship. We are virtually under one now. Bad!
Every two-hundred-year-old republic is entitled to at least one patriot dictator.
IMO it may well take that to restore our Constitution. Good!