Posted 10:07 pm Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Send to Kindle
Last Word, July 4
Let’s give Thomas Jefferson the last word on the Supreme Court, which ruled last week that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional:
“To consider the [Supreme Court] as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine, placing us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men…and not more so, with the same passions for party, power, and privilege. Their power is extremely dangerous, as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to elective control.”
Harry Bergman
Frankston
“To consider the [Supreme Court] as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine, placing us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men…and not more so, with the same passions for party, power, and privilege. Their power is extremely dangerous, as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to elective control.”
Harry Bergman
Frankston
