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Who makes the laws? - bradberry - 08-10-2015
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RE: Who makes the laws? - Dutz - 08-10-2015
I posted this in another thread, but it fits here.
“This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves. To allow the policy question of same-***** marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.”
-- Justice Antonin Scalia
RE: Who makes the laws? - BelieveIn308 - 08-10-2015
And I thought it was our President with his Pen and Phone... Wait, the Constitution is still in effect right? Or is this the version from Hillary's server?
RE: Who makes the laws? - British Gunner - 08-10-2015
Paul Begala, advisor to Bill Clinton said of executive orders "Stroke of the pen, law of the land... pretty cool eh?"
I'm a fairly new US citizen, but how come I seem to know more about the roles of the three branches better than the people in them? The three branches are meant to be a check and balance, not a mutual ego stroking organization. Unfortunately with recent SCOTUS decisions, it appears that they have decided its their turn to make laws from scratch.
RE: Who makes the laws? - bradberry - 08-11-2015
He who has the gold makes the rules at least in their minds.
RE: Who makes the laws? - mikereddot - 08-16-2015
(08-10-2015, 06:19 PM)British Gunner Wrote: Paul Begala, advisor to Bill Clinton said of executive orders "Stroke of the pen, law of the land... pretty cool eh?"
I'm a fairly new US citizen, but how come I seem to know more about the roles of the three branches better than the people in them? The three branches are meant to be a check and balance, not a mutual ego stroking organization. Unfortunately with recent SCOTUS decisions, it appears that they have decided its their turn to make laws from scratch.
Problem the average Joe learned about it in school as a kids, and they truly didn't understand what it meant. I think we foreigners, learning it as adults have a better chance seeing the big picture.