If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different from that of a legislature, if the considerations governing constitutional construction are to be substantially those that underlie legislation, then indeed judges should not have life tenure and they should be made directly responsible to the electorate. Felix Frankfurter
Graves v. New York , 306 US 466 (1939) Ã
All posts by admin
From each according to his own free will, to each according to …
From each according to his own free will, to each according to his own hard work. Unknown
Here in its spectacular glory is the magnificent result of 70 years …
Here in its spectacular glory is the magnificent result of 70 years of the welfare state of the federal war on poverty. Tens of thousands of people [of New Orleans] lacking sufficient money to enable them to escape oncoming disaster for just a few days, dependent on the federal government for their salvation, desperately waiting for federal officials to deliver food and water to them, and to pick them up and deliver them to government – run refugee centers around the nation. Jacob Hornberger
September 2005
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from …
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty. Ludwig von Mises
(1881-1973)
…
[T]he peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race . . . those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprivedvof the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. John Stuart Mill
1869
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for …
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself. Louis D. Brandeis
former Supreme Court Justice
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they …
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. Tom Mullen
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have …
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! Benjamin Franklin
The Clinton Administration’s health care plan is a large down payment …
The Clinton Administration’s health care plan is a large down payment on socialism, with future installments certain to be larger than advertised, whether measured in money or in lost freedom to make our own decisions about medical care that are literally questions of life and death. Thomas Sowell
Dr. Thomas Sowell, Forbes, January 17, 1994, (1930- ) American writer, scholar and economist, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute,Stanford, California
…
‘Life is the division of human cells, a process that begins with conception…. The [Supreme Court’s abortion] ruling was unjust, and it is incumbent on the Congress to correct the injustice. I have always been supportive of pro-life legislation. I intend to remain steadfast on this issue…. I believe that the life of the unborn should be protected at all costs.In 1987, however, Mr. Gephardt decided to run for president, and he soon announced that he had discontinued his support for pro-life legislation. Specifically, he informed the National Right to Life Committee, ‘I do not support any Constitutional Amendment pertaining to the legality of abortion.’ Richard Gephardt
Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) in 1984