On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:49:57 -0500, Wes wrote:

While you're reading it, make sure that you remember that it's a
damned lucky thing that we don't have a supreme court full of activist
judges who legislate from the bench ;-)


You mean like the ones that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson?

Wes
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Plessy v Ferguson was largely overturned by the rednecks. It
provided for schooling that was *seperate BUT EQUAL.* Billy Bob
Fuddpucker and his cousins were intelectually capable of
understanding one word but not three. In no school district was
segregated schooling even remotely equal. A contributing factor
was that many, possibly all, of the states attempting to maintain
segrigated school systems could not afford to maintain even one
functional educational system, let alone two. One point of irony
is that the case that oveturned Plessy was Brown v Board of
Education [Topeka, Kansas], which was in a "free state," rather
than a "deep south" school district. Kansas was a flash point
leading up to the American Civil War, e.g. John Brown, Quantrill
& the bushwhackers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantrill%27s_Raiders
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/peop.../quantrill.htm

In the last analysis "Plessey v Furgeson" committed suicide and
the Warren court just administered the "last rites" in 1954 with
"Brown v Board of Education"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v...d_of_Education

IMNSHO Earl Warren has much to answer for, but Brown v Board of
Education isn't included.


Unka George (George McDuffee)
...............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).