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Mar. 16th, 2004 11:38 amOn reading a recent post by
bonibaru and considering the ramifications:
(What ramifications? Well, if a Supreme Court decision can be overturned by a vote of Congress, then judicial review ceases to exist, and the Constitution becomes whatever the Congress decided it should be, regardless of the actual text of the document. Why bother to make an amendment? Why bother to have a written Constitution in the first place?)
I was thinking that the Founding Fathers must be turning over in their graves. Then I realized that wasn't enough, and found myself wishing that the Founding Fathers would rise from their graves and re-enact Night of the Living Dead upon their supposed political heirs...
(What ramifications? Well, if a Supreme Court decision can be overturned by a vote of Congress, then judicial review ceases to exist, and the Constitution becomes whatever the Congress decided it should be, regardless of the actual text of the document. Why bother to make an amendment? Why bother to have a written Constitution in the first place?)
I was thinking that the Founding Fathers must be turning over in their graves. Then I realized that wasn't enough, and found myself wishing that the Founding Fathers would rise from their graves and re-enact Night of the Living Dead upon their supposed political heirs...