Freedom Thinking Lesson of the Day. To really begin the process of solving federal rule over the people, we must stop thinking that the Supreme Court is the final say on what is and isnt Constitutional. We MUST stop thinking the nine politically connected lawyers in black robes are the final arbiter. In a representative republic, that amounts to very slavish thinking! While Im no fan of Abraham Lincoln and have written quite a bit of negative about his actions as President, even a broken clock is right twice a day! Heres a quote from the attached article: In his first inaugural, in 1861, Lincoln noted that to bind the other branches of government, based on a decision thought erroneous that arose out of “ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.” In other words, it is not self-evident that one decision by a court, even the Supreme Court, need announce a binding constitutional principle that the other, co-equal branches are bound to obey. Nor would the judicial supremacist view have satisfied Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in an 1820 letter that: The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments coequal and co–sovereign within themselves. If the legislature fails to pass laws for a census, for paying the judges and other officers of government, for establishing a militia, for naturalization as prescribed by the Constitution, or if they fail to meet in Congress, the judges cannot issue their mandamus to them; if the President fails to provide the place of a judge, to appoint other civil and military officers, to issue requisite commissions, the judges cannot force him. I know its hard, as it was for me, but weve got to free our minds of the idea that the Supreme Court is the final say. By doing so, as Jefferson suggest, we have erected a tribunal that rules us today. The only remedy to this is to stop thinking that is the way it was intended or that that is the way it must be. That is not freedom.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:45:29 +0000
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