[Hoot Gibson]

We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice....

Is it your position, Hoot, that the original intent of the Framers, many of them slave owners, was to end slavery as a principle of "establish justice"? That they intended to extend to women the right to vote, as a matter of "establish justice"? You and I, Hoot, are having a fundamental disagreement often about the very nature of federalism as opposed to state's rights. I think you're on the wrong side of history... which isn't calling you a racist or a misogynist or any such. Your cautionary tales of an increasingly totalitarian government, while bloated with a hack's bias, serve a useful purpose in our republic; however, I do think you're on the wrong side of history.

[B]Yes we do[/B] but neither of us had a hand in writing the US Constitution. The framers of the US Constitution provided for a mechanism to amend the document as the need arose, but only with the consent of the governed.

Liberals have no interest in our government getting the consent of the people it governs. All that matters to the far left is imposing their will on the nation, regardless of the Constitution or the will of the majority. The framers of the Constitution never intended for the judicial branch to be able to set aside legislation simply because a judge's political views match those of a very vocal minority. It is time for judges to rediscover the four corners principle of jurisprudence.