From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 21:55:47 MDT
J Corbally wrote:
> This would be a stunning victory, but I've a feeling it'll be overturned
> also, whether by "process of law" or by force.
>
No "process of law" can overturn a Supreme Court ruling on a
Constitutional issue. Only a different Supremem Court ruling at
a later time can do so. No act of force can overturn the
decision either, short of repudiating the Constitution and its
division of powers.
> "Non-believers" are said to make up 14% of the U.S. population. It's
> perhaps time they started acting like 14%. A march of several million
> people in D.C. would certainly get noticed, and perhaps serve to help
> these kinds of rulings stick.
>
The help is not needed to make the ruling stick. The Court is
set up as it is precisely so it is not (in theory) subject to
popular opinion or political motivations of the moment.
But such a demonstration would give pause to the legions of
ninnies attempting to "claim the country for Christ".
- samantha
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