The source of rights
Foundation for Economic Education
by Dean Russell
The prevailing justification for governmental action in the United States today is this: The desires of the majority, as determined by universal and secret ballot, shall become the law of the land. And once the vote is in, everyone must obey, including those who think the law is immoral or economically destructive. Even if a person thinks the law violates individual freedom and the basic human rights of every person, he must still conform. Here are three examples of this situation currently in force... (written 11/84; posted 05/02/07)
http://tinyurl.com/33o36l
Is the Supreme Court all thumbs?
Liberty For All
by Garry Reed
05/02/07
Silly me. Somehow I thought the purpose of the Supreme Court was to decide if the laws concocted by our law concoctors are constitutional. Maybe it was the inadequacy of my small town public schooling. Maybe I’d watched too many old pompous black-and-white movies about old pompous men in pompous robes. I pictured these nine wise and wizened men (and now women) reading a new law, consulting their well-thumbed copies of the Constitution and then giving the law thumbs up or thumbs down...
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=638
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Dean Russell
The prevailing justification for governmental action in the United States today is this: The desires of the majority, as determined by universal and secret ballot, shall become the law of the land. And once the vote is in, everyone must obey, including those who think the law is immoral or economically destructive. Even if a person thinks the law violates individual freedom and the basic human rights of every person, he must still conform. Here are three examples of this situation currently in force... (written 11/84; posted 05/02/07)
http://tinyurl.com/33o36l
Is the Supreme Court all thumbs?
Liberty For All
by Garry Reed
05/02/07
Silly me. Somehow I thought the purpose of the Supreme Court was to decide if the laws concocted by our law concoctors are constitutional. Maybe it was the inadequacy of my small town public schooling. Maybe I’d watched too many old pompous black-and-white movies about old pompous men in pompous robes. I pictured these nine wise and wizened men (and now women) reading a new law, consulting their well-thumbed copies of the Constitution and then giving the law thumbs up or thumbs down...
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=638
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 3. Mai, 13:51
