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pbmus

(12,422 posts) Mon Jun 30, 2014, 09:18 PM Jun 2014

WTF ...16

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WTF ...16 (Original Post) pbmus Jun 2014 OP

We, the people, Unknown Beatle Jun 2014 #1

"..The Constitution..is a mere thing of WAX in the hands of the judiciary...."-Jefferson ErikJ Jul 2014 #2

Unknown Beatle

(2,672 posts)

1. We, the people,

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 11:52 PM

Jun 2014

need term limits for members of scotus.

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)

2. "..The Constitution..is a mere thing of WAX in the hands of the judiciary...."-Jefferson

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Tue Jul 1, 2014, 12:05 AM

Jul 2014

“Our Constitution . . . intending to establish three departments, co-ordinate and independent that they might check and balance one another, it has given—according to this opinion to one of them alone the right to prescribe rules for the government of others; and to that one, too, which is unelected by and independent of the nation. . . . The Constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.” (Letter to Judge Spencer Roane, Sept. 6, 1819)

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