The Judicial Branch needs the Executive. They're not dictators. When will they figure that out? We're not a country with a three-part government that depends on checks and balances to function. We have have the Executive branch with two equally subservient branches bellow it.
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"you greatly underestimate the hatred conservatives have for this country"
And their lack of knowledge of the actual constitution.
This is another one of those quotes that's going along just fine and then completely derails in the last sentence.
EDIT: My eyes skipped over the word "not" in the second to last sentence. I guess it derails about half-way through, then.
That's not the way it works and basically thats the trouble of it, isn't it? Some conservatives will bellow about what the Constitution really says, but they don't want to accept the consequences of the system that involves a SCOTUS with the power to interpret that constitution if the result isn't to their liking. However they can't have one without the other.
"We're not a country with a three-part government that depends on checks and balances to function."
Take out the word "not," completely reversing the meaning in this sentence, and I believe you would have one of the most important core statements of ANY and EVERY book on United States government ever written, ESPECIALLY textbooks. So if this isn't a troll, it's someone who is seriously reality-impaired.
~David D.G.
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you greatly underestimate the hatred conservatives have for this country
If you mean the free conservatives, then yeah, these people are really out there, but I wouldn't classify a group as large as "conservatives" as hating the country. Anyone who makes a claim like in the post is a neo-conservative at the least, most likely a nationalist, and a fascist at the most. A real conservative would immediately recognize that this is unquestionably un-constitutional, and screams "big government" to them. Unfortunately, such people no longer seem to have control of the right wing in the U.S.
"'We're not a country with a three-part government that depends on checks and balances to function.'
No way this can be real. It's way too specific for him to not know what the constitution really says. "
Yes... that's exactly it. It's as if he has read the Constitution, but decided to reject its reality and substitute it with his own.
If you even bothered with civics class you would have noticed that the Legislative branch, not the Executive, is established by Article I of the Constitution. And if you paid especially close attention you would have noticed that originally, the executive was appointed not by direct public elections (in fact, he still isn't technically - the public votes for electors who have pledged their vote to a certain candidate) - in fact, according to Wikipedia, until 1860, at least one state Legislature (South Carolina's) directly appointed electors (as they are permitted to do by the Constitution), and the Federalist Papers suggested that most Presidents would be chosen by the House (as is the case should a candidate fail to receive a majority). Also, Congress alone has the power to remove the President, VP, or Supreme Court members from office.
If the Founding Fathers intended any one branch to reign supreme, it was the legislative, not the executive.
"If you mean the free conservatives, then yeah, these people are really out there, but I wouldn't classify a group as large as "conservatives" as hating the country. Anyone who makes a claim like in the post is a neo-conservative at the least, most likely a nationalist, and a fascist at the most. A real conservative would immediately recognize that this is unquestionably un-constitutional, and screams "big government" to them. Unfortunately, such people no longer seem to have control of the right wing in the U.S."
you're probably right...but the neo-cons are the ones we hear most...it really does seem as though they've given up on the fear of "big government" lately...
as for my earlier point regarding their hatred of this country...i just don't see how a group can claim a monopoly on patriotism while trying to destroy the very rights that made america great in the first place
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I believe he's the third George to be President (I'd be rather surprised if you forgot the first one, so I'll assume that you didn't include him as "King George I" because he didn't want to be a king). Ironic, that. King George III's actions led to the creation of the USA; President George III seems intent on undoing all of that.
If I were this guy's civics teacher, I'd take a baseball bat to his head. I think his civics teacher should be contacted, and given that opportunity.
Edit: Like many folks, I also missed the word "not" in that second sentence initially. Thus, I hope he was being facetious.
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