I remember being a little girl, and hearing my mom say, “The one thing our very wise forfathers didn’t forsee, was how to keep the judicial branch of government from being too strong.”
I didn’t understand that completely then.
The Constitution establishes legislative and executive branches of government to establish policy, make laws, and govern the nation. The role of the judicial branch is to ensure fairness and justice in the application of the laws.
These days, the branch that is supposed to MAKE the laws, (Congress) doesn’t. They worry about gambling in the baseball arena, they change the menu at the government cafeteria, and they waste time and money running for president, but it seems little else. (Read here for more of their activities)
So, the judicial branch of government is doing exactly what mom said they would, instead of ensuring the application of laws, they are MAKING them.
This is dangerous, especially when it overrides the will of the majority of the people. The most recent case, just four activist judges have trashed the votes of the 61.4% of California voters who approved Proposition 22, which defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Samuel Frances writes in The New American:
”Judicial revolution in the United States — the process by which the federal courts and especially the Supreme Court have appointed themselves the virtual dictators to determine which laws are valid and which laws are not, without reference to the wishes of voters or lawmakers or even to the text of the Constitution — consists precisely in overturning the authentic federalism of the Constitution and the states’ rights it protects. In virtually every area where the courts have intruded, their rulings have sought to strip the states and local governments of their legitimate rights and powers and to grant illegitimate powers to the federal government. And, perhaps the saddest truth of all, the courts have been able to get away with this vast usurpation of power precisely because neither our elected lawmakers nor the citizens themselves have called them to account, and we have not called them to account because we have forgotten the true nature of our Constitution and the limits it places upon centralized power.”
I’d like to say Congress should get to WORK for a change, but based on who is in there, we might be better off.
It’s up to us, the American people, to educate our children in our Constitution, because it won’t take long for all legislation to come from the bench, with lawyers and corrupt judges running everything.
