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To: Jacquerie
Everybody learns in the first year of law school that the law that’s challenged is presumed to be constitutional

He is right about that, the way things are taught; laws are like a person being accused of a crime being innocent until proven guilty. Laws are Constitutional until proven not Constitutional. That is the system.

47 posted on 03/29/2012 2:08:39 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
Yes, it works to their advantage, but it is still not right under our system.

Several of our accusations against King George III dealt with the courts. Colonial, English judges protected the prerogatives of the sovereign, the KIng

To correct the problem, the Framers created a judiciary independent of the executive. Our judges also have a duty to protect the prerogatives of their sovereign, the lawgivers. That sovereign is us, the people, and not the government.

Unfortunately, we have gone full circle. Like the King's judges, Breyer, Soto, Kagan, Ginsberg work to protect and promote the imaginary prerogatives of the government, rather than the sovereign people.

If Scotus had continued to apply the Necessary and Proper criteria to laws as Madison and the Framing generation intended, we would not be standing as we are at the edge of the societal and financial abyss.

111 posted on 03/29/2012 2:49:56 PM PDT by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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