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From yesterday's thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564584/posts?page=1754#1754

To: ken5050
Jack Reed has just handed the Republican Senators a mighty weapon for defending the Constitution against the Radical Left's assaults in these hearings. He quoted Justice Frankfurter's comment that ended with this phrase: ". . . the Court is the Constitution."

This is exactly the kind of thinking that has led us away from the principles embedded by the Founders in our written Constitution.

If the Constitution is the people's document, and if it--as it has been considered to be--is the protector of the people's liberty and rights, If the 9 unelected men, serving life terms on the Supreme Court, are our protection, then we do not live under the "rule of law," we live under "the rule of 9 men."

The "living constitution" school has advocated this kind of nonsense for recent decades, reflecting an idea one university professor proudly boasted was that "what we have is a 'sitting constitution.'" In other words, we have nine men who can, unconstitutionally, change the written constitution at will, instead of interpreting it in the sense that it was adopted. We must keep in mind that the Founders wrote into Article V of the Constitution itself the only legitimate means by which it could be changed, and that did not include a decision by any judge at any time.

As Orrin Hatch observed today, the Constitution's own process for amendment (change), as prescribed in Article V, involves "We, the People," through our elected representatives--not the judiciary.

Hopefully, some Republican Senator will correct Senator Reed's understanding of what the Court is supposed to be and, at the same time, educate some young people as to the dangers of the Radical Left's agenda for America.
1,754 posted on 01/25/2006 4:57:58 PM CST by loveliberty2