current events. In reacting to the recent Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of slavery ( the court upheld slavery) Ole Abe states just before his inauguration. ('member honorable friends use to be March 20th.....)
The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.
--Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861
Now doesn't that just shoot the argument out of the abortion decision (Roe vs Wade) and another potential decision regarding gay/same sex/ marriage as being allowed to be decided solely by the courts?
Let's face it folks the Congress and Executive have been less than courageous in fullfilling their role of making and passing law.. We cannot allow this abrogation of the will of the people to long continue... Or we have "ceased to be their (our) own rulers...
Abe was a brilliant man nespa?
The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.
--Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861
Now doesn't that just shoot the argument out of the abortion decision (Roe vs Wade) and another potential decision regarding gay/same sex/ marriage as being allowed to be decided solely by the courts?
Let's face it folks the Congress and Executive have been less than courageous in fullfilling their role of making and passing law.. We cannot allow this abrogation of the will of the people to long continue... Or we have "ceased to be their (our) own rulers...
Abe was a brilliant man nespa?
