From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 19:03:05 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
> Samantha Atkins wrote:
>>Sorry but the Supreme Court does have final authority to
>>interpret the Consitution and judge whether or not it is
>>violated by any act of the legislature. Yes, the constitution
>>can be amended but not simply to overturn a decision of the
>>Court. That would be frivolous.
>
>
> That would be history. Go read a book.
>
> The 1850 Dred Scott case, which forced the hand of the north and south
> toward Civil War a decade later (and the 13-16th amendments thereafter,
> which overturned Dred Scott). I'd not call freeing the slaves a
> frivolous matter, and it took a Constitutional Amendment to do it to
> overturn the Supreme Court's own ruling.
Re-read what I said. I said the Court has final authority to
*interpret* the Constitution. I never said the Constitution
could not be amended in such a way as to lead to a quite
different interpretation.
-s.
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