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Our form of government is based on a system of checks and balances. But through the connivance of the executive branch, and the negligence of the legislative branch, the judiciary is now unchecked. There is no effective limit to what five members of the Supreme Court can do, through the arbitrary extension of their own power.

He nails it right here.

1 posted on 09/09/2015 11:01:51 AM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 09/09/2015 11:02:54 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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What if everyone acted like Kim Davis?

Then Obama, the Farrakhanites, CAIR, Occupy, Blacklivesmatter, the EPA, La Raza, etc

would be running for cover.


3 posted on 09/09/2015 11:05:04 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: wagglebee

A+


4 posted on 09/09/2015 11:06:42 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: wagglebee

What if everyone acted like Kim Davis?

What a wonderful world...


6 posted on 09/09/2015 11:10:19 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: wagglebee

> “What if everyone acted like Kim Davis?”

I believe Ted Cruz answered this best that if everyone believed as Kim, then there would enough to pass a constitutional amendment.


7 posted on 09/09/2015 11:11:36 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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They never could’ve pushed the envelope as much as they have if the economy was booming and jobs were plentiful. When people fear losing their job and not having another one to go to, they won’t be willing to rock the boat the way Kim Davis has.

Thats why everything is being pushed on us now.


8 posted on 09/09/2015 11:12:48 AM PDT by uncitizen (i hate gutless people, too.)
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Yossarian photo: yossarian Yossarian.jpg "We'd be damned fools to act any differently." Yossarian
12 posted on 09/09/2015 11:21:49 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: wagglebee
Our form of government is based on a system of checks and balances. But through the connivance of the executive branch, and the negligence of the legislative branch, the judiciary is now unchecked. There is no effective limit to what five members of the Supreme Court can do, through the arbitrary extension of their own power.

Unless, of course, Baraq doesn't like the decision. Then he simply ignores it.

14 posted on 09/09/2015 11:42:27 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Donald Trump: Quality Conservatism Since 2015.")
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To: wagglebee

What if everyone acted like Kim Davis?

“What a wonderful world it would be...”


15 posted on 09/09/2015 11:59:50 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: wagglebee

Kim Davis is a gutsy lady. I hope the cheering crowds gave her comfort after her ordeal.


16 posted on 09/09/2015 12:01:47 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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"The only real security of liberty, in any country, is the jealousy and circumspection of the people themselves. Let them be watchful over their rulers. Should they find a combination against their liberties, and all other methods appear insufficient to preserve them, they have, thank God, an ultimate remedy. That power which created the government can destroy it. Should the government, on trial, be found to want amendments, those amendments can be made in a regular method, in a mode prescribed by the Constitution itself [...]. We have [this] watchfulness of the people, which I hope will never be found wanting." - James Iredell, Elliot, 4:130. Iredell appointed by President Washington to First Supreme Court.

From the North Carolina History web site, comes this information about him:

When the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 proposed the federal Constitution, Iredell was its foremost advocate in North Carolina. He inaugurated the first public movement in the state in favor of the document and wrote extensively in hopes of creating a new government. In particular, he responded to Virginia’s George Mason’s eleven objections to the Constitution and gained national attention in doing so. A Norfolk printer, for example, shelved other political tracts in 1788 to publish Iredell’s “Answers.” The essay preceded 49 of the 85 essays that constitute the Federalist Papers and appears to have been widely distributed.

At the first North Carolina ratification convention, Iredell was the floor leader for the Federalist forces. After the 1788 convention refused to ratify the federal Constitution, he then wielded his influential and skillful pen to fell Anti-federalist arguments and champion the Federalist cause and the benefits of the Constitution. When North Carolina finally ratified the document at its second convention (1789), Iredell was widely considered the intellectual general of the Federalists’ victory. For Iredell’s ratification efforts, President George Washington rewarded the North Carolinian with an appointment to the original U.S. Supreme Court, where he served for almost a decade. (Even before ratification, his acquaintances had speculated that his future included a federal judgeship.) During his tenure on the Supreme Court, Iredell closely dealt with Presidents Washington and John Adams and offered vigorous and partisan support for their administrations. He also chronicled important events and personalities.

On the topic of "religious liberty," Iredell wrote:
"“Had Congress undertaken to guarantee religious freedom, or any particular species of it, they would then have had a pretense to interfere in a subject they have nothing to do with. Each state, so far as the clause in question does not interfere, must be left to the operation of its own principles.” - James Iredell - Debates on the Constitution, NC, 1788 (Appointed by Geo. Washington to First Supreme Court of the U. S.)

19 posted on 09/09/2015 1:00:58 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: wagglebee

Exactly. We are no longer a constitutional republic, we are ruled by an unelected politburo of 5. All of whom are east coasters schooled at Yale and Harvard and not one of them an Evangelical Christian while the country as a whole is about 30% Evangelical. Anthony Kennedy should be put in stocks.


20 posted on 09/09/2015 1:05:23 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: wagglebee

Excellent post.


21 posted on 09/09/2015 2:11:29 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: wagglebee

America would be a better place.


22 posted on 09/09/2015 8:09:29 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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....it would be a FAR better country!


23 posted on 09/09/2015 8:31:49 PM PDT by noprogs (Cruze 2016 "Vow to Endeavor to Persevere")
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