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To: hellbender
"Can you show me where in the Constitution a bunch of black-robed legal hacks, responsible to no one and entrenched for life, are allowed to make law?"

Can you really be this naive? A judicial ruling has the force of law and always has (or at least since 1803). That is not open to debate. None of us like abortion or Roe V. Wade but is a judicial ruling from the Supreme Court and therefore is, in effect, the law of the land. That doesn't mean that we don't try to fight it somehow, but we can't ignore it like an elephant in the room as you seem to want to do.

You can read the Constitution yourself and no doubt have done so, but that doesn't change the reality on the ground. Judicial decisions have the force of law and are de facto law. Even if you hate that fact with every fiber of your being and spend every waking hour wishing it where different, it's not. I can cite many decisions that we hate, such as Kelo, but they do still have the force of law. Standing on constitutionality, which nowadays has a different meaning than you seem to think, doesn't change that.

57 posted on 11/27/2009 9:16:59 AM PST by Batrachian
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To: Batrachian
The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Fabrications by unelected lawyers who ignore the Constitution and do violence to its explicit wording with their idiotic doctrines of "precedent" are not "law." This country was founded on a written Constitution, not a bunch of haphazard precedents like that of Great Britain. The Founders did not want to rerun the many disasters of the mother country. They wanted an explicit document controlling govt. They would have been appalled to hear that the Constitution guaranteed a right to murder children. We need to crush and exterminate this doctrine that lawyers can fabricate law to suit sinful collectivist fantasies, without the slightest regards for the Constitution, the sovereign will of the people, or natural law.
72 posted on 11/27/2009 9:45:13 AM PST by hellbender
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