Monday, July 2, 2012

With the disgraceful Supreme Court ruling on Obama's socialist health care plan, we should keep in mind what the founders thought of the Supreme Court, in terms of being the final arbiters of constitutional questions...
"... to consider the judges of the Superior Court as the ultimate Arbiters of Constitutional questions would be a dangerous doctrine which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. They have with others, the same passion for party, for power, and for the privileges of their corps—and their power is the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the Elective control. The Constitution has elected no single Tribunal. I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves.”

- Thomas Jefferson

Additionally, Jefferson, the writer of the 1798 Kentucky Resolution states in article 8 therein...

"...but, where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy: that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, (casus non fœderis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them: that nevertheless, this commonwealth, from motives of regard and respect for its co States, has wished to communicate with them on the subject: that with them alone it is proper to communicate, they alone being parties to the compact, and solely authorized to judge in the last resort of the powers exercised under it..."

So much for the idea that Federal Law trumps state law on authority not delegated to the federal government.

Please get out and vote for your state and county officials.
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