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Tuesday, August 06, 2024

Commentary: The Crucial Importance of an Independent Judiciary

The independent judiciary established by our Constitution has inspired the world. Even British law, which developed and preserved constitutional liberties, and whose firm sense of political rights inspired the American Founders, has only in the last two decades undertaken to separate its judiciary from Parliament’s supremacy.

The Framers of the Constitution were keenly aware of how Britain’s constitution had failed them. Britain’s judiciary had no power to keep Parliament in check when it passed the Intolerable Acts and the other outrages to which the Declaration of Independence objected. Previously, the courts proved unable to rein in the Stuart kings’ grabs for supremacy; war resulted.
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2 comments:

  1. For far too long judges have been revered as infallible gawds in this country. When all along their biases and crimes have gone unpunished.

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  2. The GP have been convinced (per media) that being Progressive is a "good thing" - we "OWE" those who are unable to provide for themselves (and their families - and their offspring) as one example.
    The Progressive politicians aren't truly Progressives, nor Communists, nor Socialists, nor Marxists: they're Anarchists; they're committed (by any and all means) to the destruction of our Judeo-Christian ethos which is the foundation of our country - and the GP has been bombarded with these Goebbelsian tactics since kindergarten.

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