[Peace-discuss] Re: [Discuss] War on
drugs
Karen Medina
kmedina at illinois.edu
Wed Sep 24 10:23:24 CDT 2008
Carl wrote:
>The authority of the Supreme Court to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution. It was the result of a power-grab by Chief Justice John Marshall, on behalf of the property party.
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>No telling what those crazy members of Congress might do (some of them were even elected by [some] people), so you had to have a way of stopping them. As the first Chief Justice of the US put it, "The people who own the country ought to govern it." --CGe
Each weapon that one uses will someday be used against one.
-karen medina
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