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To: DiogenesLamp

Ah, then what it really comes down to, do you respect the law or not? Do you recognize that the law, imperfect as it is, is far better than anarchy and capriciousness in public life?

Because if you want a government of men and not of laws, you want a king and not elected officials.


48 posted on 10/07/2011 3:36:18 PM PDT by sometime lurker
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To: sometime lurker
Ah, then what it really comes down to, do you respect the law or not? Do you recognize that the law, imperfect as it is, is far better than anarchy and capriciousness in public life?

I respect the "law" just fine. The people currently claiming authority over me, not so much. I only respect their authority when it is legitimate, not when it is won by trickery lying and double dealing. You offer me the false choice between respecting them or anarchy in seeming oblivion to the notion that choosing to respect them IS choosing anarchy.

Because if you want a government of men and not of laws, you want a king and not elected officials.

No, I want the government of laws. Men are fickle and capricious. That's why I insist on the highest possible standard of citizenship to qualify for the Office of the Presidency. That standard would have interdicted the Malignant incompetent now squatting in rule over us.

It matters not what a court nowadays thinks of Article II. It's legitimacy comes from the compact between states, and descends from what the Writers of the Constitution, and what the Ratifiers of the Constitution believed it to mean.

Courts do not decide truth. They just decide who gets the business end of the Law enforcement guns. Justice is done when truth coincides with their decision.

55 posted on 10/07/2011 4:02:41 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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