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(David Hall) wrote in
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Secret Squirrel wrote in message
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.

That's a good one!! If I hire someone to "interpret" spanish for me
and he tells me that "uno" means "take out the trash", he was NOT
interpreting, he was just making it up.

Thats hardly the same thing. One is a case where there is a simple fact
and a single word at that. The other is one where there is legislation
that can run into hundreds of pages of not always crystal clear text.

That is what judges do as far
as I am concerned. When Supreme Court Justice Blackmum spoke
approvingly about a "living Constitution" he was simply saying that he
was happy that he did not have to abide by some document written and
approved by some old white guys and that he (with the concurrance of 4
other Justices) could just make it up as they go and "pass laws" by
decree. This is the very definition of a dictatorship - or more
specifically an Oligarchy - 9 people in power for life that can make
law by decree.

And yet the very concept of these 9 people appointed for life was created
by those same "old white guys" Those same 9 people are appointed by the
president. The president who, the last election not withstanding, was
appointed by the majority of voters and only after approval by the
Senate, again placed there by the voters.

Dave Hall