"J. Clarke" wrote in news:cg2pr80r83
@news4.newsguy.com:

Secret Squirrel wrote:

"George" george@least wrote in :

Horsehocky!

Judicial activism has negated the legislative branch. Laws are made
by judges under the guise of interpretation.

For fashion, consider how "faggot" is interpreted as non-protected
"hate speech," while "homophobe" is not, as the NJ business heats up.

"Charlie Self" wrote in message
...
Uh, no, not so. The pesky Constitution was written to provide a
basis
for future laws. In 220 years, give or take, there have been very
few
changes
to
the document. And our founding fathers made it exceptionally
difficult to change specifically to protect if from people who would
prefer to ignore certain aspects, or to change them to suit their,
or
a locally
fashionable,
whim.




Once again the public schools have failed us. Judges do not make laws.
They interpret and adjudicate them. The legislature makes laws. Its
that
whole 3 seperate arms of government concept.

Yes, the public schools _have_ failed us. The legislature makes
"statute
law". Judges make what is called "case law", which is just as much a
part
of the law as statute law. Further, you're missing the point.


Case law is not law, it is an interpretation of the law. Those
interpretations my be relied on in the future or new interpretations may
occur, but the basic law (no quotes needed), does not change.
My point which seems to have been missed is that the majority of people
responding to this otherwise ridiculous thread seem to think that their
interpretation of right and wrong should be the law of the land. Sadly
few of them display any knowledge whatsoever of even elementary civics.