T Paine
09-21-2003, 06:11 AM
self government
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"We have...reached the point as a Nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself. We must find a way to take an appeal from the Supreme Court to the Constituton itself. We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution-not over it. In our Courts we want a government of laws and not of men."
The judicial branch of government, particularly the United States Supreme Court, has slowly been eroding the intentions of our forefathers by usurping increasingly more authority over what should be considered public policy debates and not legal issues. From matters such as the Dred Scott flag exhibit, to the "Ten Commandments" debate, to a host of other issues, the Courts have moved from thr legitimate role of interpreting the intent of the law, to an unforeseen role as elite dictators of the public good.
The American Revolution was fought to secure for every citizen of this nation the right to self-government. The Constitution provides the framework for how this right is to be achieved (such as in Article IV, section 4: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this union a republican form of government")
The framers sought to create the a federal government which would protect each American's right to self-government through providing an armed force, a single voice in negotiating forgn treaties, and in providing federal institutions which would promote commerce abroad and among the several states.
Today's Court has limited this right to self-government. Too many members of the judiciary see themselves as final arbitors of how the laws of every level of government should be constructed and what they should mean. They portray themselves as independent of partisan bias and therefore inherently justified to play this role, when this could not be further from the truth. Judges, as any human bng, are subject to partisan bias, and unfortunately thr biases, against the will of the people, too often become the law of the land.
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"We have...reached the point as a Nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself. We must find a way to take an appeal from the Supreme Court to the Constituton itself. We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution-not over it. In our Courts we want a government of laws and not of men."
The judicial branch of government, particularly the United States Supreme Court, has slowly been eroding the intentions of our forefathers by usurping increasingly more authority over what should be considered public policy debates and not legal issues. From matters such as the Dred Scott flag exhibit, to the "Ten Commandments" debate, to a host of other issues, the Courts have moved from thr legitimate role of interpreting the intent of the law, to an unforeseen role as elite dictators of the public good.
The American Revolution was fought to secure for every citizen of this nation the right to self-government. The Constitution provides the framework for how this right is to be achieved (such as in Article IV, section 4: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this union a republican form of government")
The framers sought to create the a federal government which would protect each American's right to self-government through providing an armed force, a single voice in negotiating forgn treaties, and in providing federal institutions which would promote commerce abroad and among the several states.
Today's Court has limited this right to self-government. Too many members of the judiciary see themselves as final arbitors of how the laws of every level of government should be constructed and what they should mean. They portray themselves as independent of partisan bias and therefore inherently justified to play this role, when this could not be further from the truth. Judges, as any human bng, are subject to partisan bias, and unfortunately thr biases, against the will of the people, too often become the law of the land.