Comments on: Celebrating Justice O’Connor: Parade Magazine Muffs the Job

By: onetenther

onetenther — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:42:20 +0000

@johnjmb714 I think the federal slave act covered a different issue which was whether or not a slave owner could re-capture their slave in free states. The issue of whether or not slave states could be slave states was never in question. I hope that answered your question.

By: johnjmb714

johnjmb714 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:50:42 +0000

@onetenther “As much as justices may have despised slavery they had no choice but to uphold it.”

Why would this statement not be just the same as if saying, the justices had no choice but to uphold the Federal slave act?

By: onetenther

onetenther — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 20:46:21 +0000

My problem with the attitude that federalism is for the preservation of individual liberty is that if the court decides that a state has stepped on someone’s liberty then whatever law that state erected that did so must be declared unconstitutional. The constitution does not say any law that violates liberty is unconstitutional because every law that is passed violates someone’s liberty. The only question that should be decided is if the power used for the creation of that law existed to the state to begin with. If the answer is YES then that law is constitutional even if the law violates someone’s liberty. Remember, slavery was clearly constitutional until an amendment was added that made it illegal everywhere in the United States. As much as justices may have despised slavery they had no choice but to uphold it. As much as O’connor is right about the sentiment about protecting someone’s individual liberty we can not allow that to be an excuse to throw away perfectly constitutional laws of either the state or federal government. What we have allowed to happen is for people to live under the court dictatorship simply because they have came up with a palatable excuse for them to throw away laws that they don’t like.

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Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:44:20 +0000

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By: CajunDave

CajunDave — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:00:10 +0000

@RonPaul_2012 For 60 years Congress has incrementally destroyed America.
And We the People let you. http://t.co/ZiZ7f8rg

By: CajunDave

CajunDave — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 09:58:12 +0000

@RonPaul_2012 For 60 years Congress has incrementally destroyed America.
And We the People let ypu.