tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post1616121232075413499..comments2024-03-27T09:44:59.329-04:00Comments on Free North Carolina: Roberts Is Wrong About Federal Judges and Here Is the Plan to Fix ItBrock Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-8752610423375594882018-12-03T12:02:01.697-05:002018-12-03T12:02:01.697-05:00I remember that quote now. Thanks.I remember that quote now. Thanks.Brock Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-83525723606535814572018-12-03T11:51:33.428-05:002018-12-03T11:51:33.428-05:00Yes, Brock! Most assuredly so! --Ron W
"I th...Yes, Brock! Most assuredly so! --Ron W<br /><br />"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." --President John F. Kennedy, hosting a dinner honoring Nobel Prize Winners<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-45611676775879938972018-12-03T11:35:31.503-05:002018-12-03T11:35:31.503-05:00Yes and I believe more intelligent than the idiots...Yes and I believe more intelligent than the idiots today.Brock Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7566715115931065803.post-43683959592560913632018-12-03T10:11:23.372-05:002018-12-03T10:11:23.372-05:00I never cease to be amazed at the prescient wisdom...I never cease to be amazed at the prescient wisdom of the founders of our Republic. <br />--Ron W<br /><br /><br />"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 … 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, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves … . When the legislative or executive functionaries act unconstitutionally, they are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves. …." --Thomas Jefferson Letter to Mr. Jarvis, Sept, 1820<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com