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2005-09-19 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Glomoper Slert8352 2005-09-19 00:46|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The fundamental problem is that what was set up as a judiciary has degenerated into a modern aristocracy. It has delegated onto itself powers incomprehensible by the founding fathers. Congress has surrendered time after time its responsibility to curtail this vast assumption of power. The judiciary operates completely outside the Jeffersonian admonition that âGovernments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers form the Consent of the Governedâ. The very definition of a republic, a democracy is a form of government which represents the vast numbers of its population. While respecting the rights of individuals and small groups, it can not strip the population as a whole of its basic rights of belief, culture, and daily life and still be a republic or a democracy. The Constitution was written by men in the common language of the period. It is not written in some arcane and ancient language only decipherable by a small and select group of acolytes. It is long past the time that Jeffersonâs warning must be enacted up, to wit - âthat whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish itâ. As Senators where once not subject to the direct consent of the governed and the XVII Amendment altered that fact, so too now the judiciary must be brought likewise to be accountable to the people. The arguments advance to maintain the status quo will interestingly enough reflect the very same arguments advanced by royalist for why we should have never separated from the crown over two hundred years ago. It is time for a full republic.

Posted by Chiger Shineng4673 2005-09-19 09:44|| 2005-09-19 09:44|| Front Page Top

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