The Great Experiment
The states are great laboratories of democracy.
Have you heard that before? The Founding Fathers had wisdom beyond their own experience, I believe, as a collection of state entities has the opportunity to discover a more optimized process or policy.
This idea relates to what South Dakota is doing with respect to Roe v. Wade. Their new law looks to ban all abortions except those to save the mother’s life. Simply put, can the citizen of South Dakota and their elected representatives make decisions that effect their lives? Or, will the national set of judges step in and overturn the will of the people?
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I tell ya, those people up there in Dakota know what they are doing!!! If only we all had the opportunity to have been raised in such a fine state!!
Scott my friend, you are so right. 8^)
The people and their leadrs can not make law that conflicts with the Constitutiuon of the United States. This is previously why laws concerning “seperate but equal” were overturned, even though of course most of the voters approved of these laws.So the new South Dakota law will have to be approved by the court system, probaly the Supreme Court. The founding fathers were concerned about “mob rule” as well as dictator/kings this is why the judicial branch has the trump card. I think they did a great job with this seperation of powers. Let us remember that only 2 of the current justices were appointed by democrats
I hear you John. But when the will of the people is disregarded in favor of the will of the few, something is desparately wrong. Roe v. Wade was a decision made without precedent, with a (somewhat) coerced plaintiff who is now generally dismissed by the same people who used her back in ’73, by a Supreme Court made up of only 9 people. So suddenly, what those handful of people consider to be the opinion of the Constitution is more important that what our almost 300 million populace wants?
In today’s climate, the balance of powers isn’t. By far, the judicial branch is overstepping theirs.