“It takes a unanimous decision to convict a man. Why not a unanimous decision to determine if a law is Constitutional. Where there is a dissenting opinion, there is doubt.”
Interesting. On the other hand, what if
1. a state (say, Massachussets) passed a law banning personal ownership of firearms,
2. it is appealed to the federal bench based on the assertion that it violates the US Constitution’s 2nd ammendment,
3. Federal judge upholds the state’s law
4. it is appealed to the USSC and it is also upheld because the vote was 8-1 (only one Justice ruled that the state’s ban on firearms was constitutional)
5. and since it wasn’t unanimous, the state’s law stands and firearms are banned. other states follow suit, etc.
We, for over a century were a union of states, but with the 17th amendment, and an overreaching Federal Judiciary, we have become something that our Founding Fathers would find abhorrent.
The Intellectual Elite make sure that anyone that does not meet their level of “political correctness” are slandered and tainted in the eyes of the general population.
The word “Democracy” is thrown about as an ideal, but our Founding Fathers established a Republic, in order to avoid mob rule.
We seem to be in the dying days of our Republic, just as the Wiemar Republic in Germany. The same elements that brought down that government are at work within our own nation. The different brands of socialist have aligned themselves with all sorts of radical elements in order to destabilize our government, believing that they will eventually win out.
The socialist in Iran were all in for the revolution, until they discovered that the tiger they had made a bargain with would eat them and dominate (the mullahs).
Hopefully our own patriots will stand for the Republic and revert our government to what the Founding Fathers intended.