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To: Nero Germanicus
The highest court in the land SETS precedent as often as it “stands by things already decided.”

My point is that it has divorced itself from the foundation of natural law upon which their authority is based, and so therefore their dictates no longer have any moral authority compelling us to obey them.

And we should not do so if we can defy them without excessive bad consequences.

68 posted on 06/26/2015 8:56:13 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

The court has always had a mix of members who based their authority on the foundations of natural law and those that didn’t. The dynamic of the Supreme Court is which judicial philosophy is in the majority at any particular point in time.
Some Justices are divorced from having moral authority, others aren’t. The people have always had the right to engage in civil disobedience as long as they are willing to pay the potential price.
That’s where civil rights movements come from.


69 posted on 06/26/2015 11:24:46 AM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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