Even with this postponement of regular business out of respect for the fallen, including the vote on the bill to repeal ObamaCare, the new House leadership has already set the stage for tremendous meaningful change for our Republic with the reading of the U.S. Constitution as the first order of business last week. It is of paramount importance that each & every Member of Congress live up to & follow the Oath they take to support the Constitution - starting with this reading we have a chance they may return to this principle of our first Congresses.
In this regard the WSJ ran the best op-ed I have ever read on the subject today entitled The Constitution: Not Just for Courts. This op-ed expands on the idea that it is the responsibility of everyone who takes the Oath to support the Constitution - not just the 9 regular human beings on the Supreme Court. Please don't fall for the propaganda that it is only the Supreme Court who can determine if something is constitutional or not. I repeat below my letter to the WSJ that was published last July in this regard.
BTW - combining the above mentioned killing incident in Arizona with the Constitution - in accordance with the 6th Amendment "the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy & public trial." To Carol & me this trial cannot be speedy enough. Neither can the dispensation of the verdict.
---Letter Published In WSJ July 16, 2010---
Timothy Dreisbach is only partially correct when he writes on July 6 that "it is the responsibility of the Supreme Court to decide if they (laws) are constitutional." Every Member of Congress & the President & Vice President also take an oath to uphold the Constitution. Up until the Civil War virtually every President regularly vetoed legislation because they thought some bills were unconstitutional - mostly for violating the Spending Claus of Article I, Section 8. What a better Republic we would have today if our modern presidents followed this practice.
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