The case of Terri Schiavo is framed by many, especially in the Christian Right, as a right-to-life issue. The right to life is an important theme. A more pressing problem is the overarching power of the judiciary, a power so evident that a probate court judge, nearly at the bottom of the judicial hierarchy, successfully stood down the U.S. Congress and his state's governor. Judicial supremacy was never the intent of the Founders, but that is what we have in America today. It is fundamentally an elitist and undemocratic system. Granted, most conservatives would not be complaining were the judicial...