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To: Cincinatus' Wife

He also wants to be able to overturn SC decisions by a 2/3 vote of Congress. Thats a two edged sword. I’d leave it be.


28 posted on 09/02/2011 12:03:59 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (breaking wind to the East..)
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To: RitchieAprile

If a branch gets to have the final say, I would rather it be Congress. It makes sense that 2/3 of Congress should be able to overturn five justices.


36 posted on 09/02/2011 12:13:39 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: RitchieAprile

“He also wants to be able to overturn SC decisions by a 2/3 vote of Congress. Thats a two edged sword. I’d leave it be.”

Yeah, it’s one thing to pretend justices are interested in nothing but the law, or that they know what they’re talking about in the first place (which is often hard to tell). Perhaps there’s a better balance we could strike. It’s quite another to throw the Constitution into the swamp and subordinate the law to democracy, even super-majority reporesentative democracy. Yuck.


81 posted on 09/02/2011 12:55:31 PM PDT by Tublecane
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