If States make laws that trample the natural rights of citizens - then those laws must be struck down.
What is a 'natural right?' Who decides what a natural right is, especially when you expand on from what was in the constitution and bill of right. Or when courts flat out ignore what IS in the bill of rights.
A State law trampling the equal rights of a disfavored minority is unlikely to be gotten rid of through majority vote - heck they voted for the policy in the first place.
That puts all the responsibility on the courts and takes it away from legislators and us as citizens. The law in Connecticut at the time banning contraceptives wasn't usually enforced. It was a test case for the court. What should have happened instead is citizens calling Connecticut legislators and removing the stupid law.
Laws that infringe upon the sovereignty of the citizen MUST be struck down - not patiently waited upon until the electorate changes its mind.
Like laws stopping the killing of babies inside the womb?
Yes, the Courts do have a responsibility for making sure that laws are Constitutional. Legislators and the majority of voters are not dictatorial - they cannot pass and enforce laws that trample the natural rights given to any citizen by our Creator and guaranteed to that citizen through our Constitution.
The laws against mixed marriages were not USUALLY enforced either - but when Mr. Loving married his pregnant girlfriend - and he was white and she was black - they were arrested and told to leave the State of Virginia.
Should Mr. Loving and his wife waited for the majority of voters in the State of Virginia to come around to the concept of equality under the law - or should that law have been struck down as Unconstitutional?
Do you think that as a citizen you have a sovereign and natural right to kill a non citizen?