[Homestead] A point of view

WILLIAM billymegab at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 25 15:49:16 EST 2006


Gene
   
  Well said!!
   
  Speaking as a Canadian, with our own political issues, I certainly agree things in the US are a little scary.  The system works when there are checks and balances and there are precious few of those at present.  
   
  God willing, this too will pass!
   
  Best Regards,
   
  William
  (Toronto, Canada)

Gene GeRue <genegerue at ruralize.com> wrote:
  
>In a Republic, our elected officials are supposed to govern according to 
>the law (with the Constitution trumping any laws that congress craps out 
>short of a Constitutional amendment, let alone any executive order).

Any law is ineffective unless enforced upon violation found. Our ultimate 
finders are nine justices. Nine humans applying their version of what the 
Constitution means. Hence the intense struggle to stack the court with 
those who interpret the Court literally versus substantively depending on 
circumstances.

Once the Supremes rule that an action is illegal, then the Justice 
Department must enforce the ruling. But at the onset, the Supremes decide 
which cases they will take. To elaborate on your apt tag line: when one 
party controls the executive, the legislative, and the judicial branches of 
our government, we no longer have a Republic; we have a tyranny with a 
tyrant supported by partisans who may fairly be judged criminals by citizens.


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