“The purge of certain words and symbols, whether you like them or not, continues.” (1) Read the rest of this entry »
“But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” Thomas Jefferson and fifty-five other men who placed their signatures on the bottom of the Declaration of Independence Read the rest of this entry »
“You seem to consider the judges the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so… and their power [are] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and are not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal…” (1) Read the rest of this entry »
“For behold, The LORD GOD of Hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply. ..the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank…I will make boys their princes…and women shall rule over them” Isaiah 3:1-4 and 12 ESV Read the rest of this entry »