James Madison vs The Enforce the Law Act of 2014 - Michael Boldin Jefferson was far from alone in his view that each person, and each branch has a duty to act according to their own understanding of the constitution. Here’s James Madison on the subject from a letter he wrote in Dec. 1834: As the Legislative, Executive & Judicial Departments of the U. S. are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each must in the exercise of its functions, be guided by the text of the Constitution according to its own interpretation of it; and consequently, that in the event of irreconcileable interpretations, the prevalence of the one or the other Departmt. must depend on the nature of the case, as receiving its final decision from the one or the other, and passing from that decision into effect, without involving the functions of any other. Anyone who tells you that only the courts are allowed to consider the constitutionality of an act or law is either ignorant, or lying. - Damn straight. blog.tenthamendmentcenter/2014/03/james-madison-vs-the-enforce-the-law-act-of-2014/
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:23:12 +0000