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Our Constitution has become a suicide pact.That’s the view of Thomas Jefferson, expressed in an 1819 letter to jurist Spencer Roane, when he said “If this opinion be sound, then indeed is our constitution a complete felo de se” (suicide pact). The opinion Jefferson referred to is the legitimacy of judicial review, the idea, as he put it, that “gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres.” He warned that accepting such a doctrine makes “the Judiciary...

The Supreme Court of the United States continues to undermine our Constitution causing the country to sink further into immorality and degradation. This is judicial tyranny, judicial activism, despotism of an oligarchy – pure and simple. The sooner the five Justices Anthony Kennedy, John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsberg are replaced, the better!

Getting back our liberties Posted: December 17, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc. Last week's column, "Let's Do Some Detective Work," provided unassailable evidence that the protections of liberty envisioned by the Constitution's Framers mean little today. I was pleasantly surprised by the responses from fellow Americans expressing disgust and fear over what our nation is becoming. Several asked how we can regain our liberties. My short answer is: I'm not sure they can ever be recovered. Let's look at it. We all have a moral obligation to pay our share for constitutionally mandated functions of the federal government, but...