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To: Nosterrex

“I, too, served in the military, and I come from a military family. I know that we took an oath to uphold the constitution, but who decides what is constitutional and what is unconstitutional? If the Supreme Court ruled that something was unconstitutional and the POTUS tried to enforce something that was blatantly unconstitutional, that would be an clear cut decision. But what if the Supreme Court decided that something that in the view of most citizens was unconstitutional as constitutional? Would that make it constitutional? Even if something is ruled constitutional, that does not make it right. To take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States is not as easy as it sounds. The Nazis took an oath to their Constitution, too, and they were still condemned as war criminals.”

The United States Supreme court does not have the final word on what is and what is not Constitutional. If it did then there would be no Constitution, only a Supreme court.

The authority instead rest with we the people, and as our tools our States.


105 posted on 03/24/2010 6:56:01 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Monorprise
Again, who decides what is constitutional and what is not? The authority to determine what is constitutional and what is not is not given to the people to decide, but to the Supreme Court to decide. The Constitution established the judicial branch of government for that purpose. If every person in the United States decided that something was constitutional, except five people on the Supreme Court that decided that it was unconstitutional, it would be ruled unconstitutional. There is a way for the states to change the Constitution by adding amendments. The interpretation of the Constitution is the purview of the Supreme Court.
107 posted on 03/24/2010 9:00:20 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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