Yes, anyone that takes the Constitution literally must be crazy!
Here is what I was trying to show you regarding the Supreme Court giving themselves the authority/power:
The Framers of the Constitution didn't give to the Supreme Court the power to interpret the constitutionality of laws made by Congress. The Supreme Court itself did this, in an unanimous opinion written by the notorious Federalist Chief Justice John Marshall, in the case of Marbry v. Madison in 1803. This decision - handed down when Thomas Jefferson was president - so upset Jefferson that he suggested (in a letter to Abigail Adams on 9/11/1804) that if the Court were to fall into the wrong hands, it "would make the judiciary a despotic branch."
He noted in that letter that he tried to prevent this sort of danger within the courts in general by achieving balance between his own Democratic Republican Party (now called simply the Democratic Party) and the Federalists (who today are reincarnated as Republicans). "In making these appointments," he wrote, "I put in a proportion of federalists, equal, I believe, to the proportion they bear in numbers through the Union generally."
Jefferson added: "Both of our political parties, at least the honest part of them, agree conscientiously in the same object - the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. ... One [the Federalists] fears most the ignorance of the people; the other [the Democratic Republicans], the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove."
The new Federalists - Bush's Republicans - clearly fear We The People, and cherish their own power to rule independent of us. And if they can seize control of the Supreme Court before the next elections, their power may become nearly absolute.
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I disagree with your assertion that todays Democratic Party bears any resemblance to Jefferson's Republicans. There is no major party today that has any resemblance to Jefferson's Republicans, and todays Republicans and Democrats are far closer to the Federalist and Whig parties of the past.
Well no, the old Federalists and Republicans would not fit in today with the modern dems and reps, but the fact is, the Republicans that freed the slaves back then overtime have become the Democrats and the GOP today were the Federalists.