Posted by
Jay Noble on Monday, June 16, 2008 11:37:22 AM
At the conclusion of the Constitutional convention in 1787 Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of government the framers had drafted. "A republic, if you can keep it," Franklin is said to replied. Now, 221 years later, after more than 50 years of a continuing constitutional coup d' e-tat by the Federal judiciary, Americans have lost the republic. We now live under a judiciary dictatorship, with the trappings of republicanism are preserved, but the substance has been consumed by the judicial appetite for power. After each decision the authority of the representative branches of government is further circumscribed, while the power of unelected and unaccountable judges is increased. Consequently, virtually every area of life now is subject to judicial oversight and control. Any law passed by a legislative body or action taken by an executive is challenged and tied up in court for years, where if it fails to meet with the latest trends or fads circulating among liberal elites, judges nullify the law or the action.
My friends, we the people no longer rule in the United States. Instead we are ruled over by a oligarchy of black robed tyrants. How else can we explain the discovery in the California constitution of a "right" to homosexual marriage? Does anyone seriously believe the drafters of the California constitution intended any part thereof support such a "right?" Yet 4 individuals, who happen to be judges of the California Supreme Court, discovered this "right" and presto, this very day homosexual partners will be wed in California.
For 232 years it was understood that the right to habeas corpus did not extend to persons captured on the battlefield by the armed forces of the United States, who were being held as enemy combatants. Let that sink in for a moment. From George Washington to George Patton, from the American Revolution to the present, habeas corpus HAS NEVER been extended to captured enemies of the nation. Yet, presto, 5 justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have discovered in the U.S. constitution a "right" for these persons to seek release in the Federal courts of the nation. The efforts of the president and the Congress, which resulted in the "most generous" set of procedures to review the propriety of their detention ever afforded captured enemies according to Chief Justice John Roberts, are swept aside as inadequate. Never that this same court only last year invited the president and Congress to write such a statute. History, national security, precedent? We don’t need no stinking precedent according to the majority. And of course they are right. The elected branches of government, the Congress and the presidency, have abdicated the responsibility to act a check on the judicial branch, and as a consequence ceded power to the judges. We are learning every day that the judicial appetite for power is insatiable.
Royalty rules by divine right and in America today judges are royalty. Many of the justices of the Supreme Court view their role not as jurists to interpret the laws and constitution in accordance with the intent of the drafters and traditions of the American people, but as philosopher kings to impose enlightenment on the little people. This impulse has subverted the edifice of republic government. It won’t take much to collapse the entire structure.