WillTheUSBeDividedUp? Wrote:
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> As the four dissenting justices pointed out, the
> Supreme Court does not have the constitutional
> authority to make this decision. First, even
> though SCOTUS has taken this authority upon
> itself, it is a usurped authority and nowhere does
> the Constitution give it this authority. The
> authority to determine the constitutionality of
> laws was given to Congress, not the courts. We are
> now suffering under the very tyranny that the
> founders warned about if the courts ever presumed
> this authority. Regardless of our position on
> same-sex marriage, every American should be deeply
> troubled by the actions of SCOTUS that this case
> is just the most recent and dramatic.
>
> Creeping Tyranny
>
> The first reason this crucial authority
> was given to Congress instead of the Executive
> branch, or the courts, is because the Congress is
> elected every two years, and therefore would be
> the most accountable to the people, who in the
> U.S. are the sovereign. The courts were for
> deciding whether or not individual cases had been
> tried fairly and justly. But nowhere is any court,
> including the Supreme Court, given authority to
> determine if a law or action is constitutional.
>
> Congress does have the authority to
> designate specific cases to the court for this
> purpose if it chooses to, but if Congress does not
> give this authority in a specific case, SCOTUS has
> no legal authority for such a decision, and it is
> therefore not valid.
>
> The second reason why this was an
> unlawful decision is that the Constitution states
> that any authority not specifically given to the
> Federal Government is reserved to the states and
> the people. Nowhere is the Federal Government
> given authority to give definitions or policy on
> social issues such as marriage and the family. The
> hubris of the Supreme Court to change the
> definition of marriage that has been universally
> accepted in civilized nations for six thousand
> years of recorded history is not only shocking,
> but an unprecedented level of arrogance by the
> Supreme Court.
>
> Because Congress’ accountability to the
> people would be the most direct, it was designed
> to be the most powerful of the three branches of
> government. It was given “the power of the
> purse” to maintain their ultimate authority.
> Because of weak leadership in Congress, both the
> Executive and Judicial branches have usurped
> Congress’ authority in recent times to the point
> where it is now almost powerless, and the
> predicted tyranny is now a reality.
>
> Without the constitutional authority to do
> what it did, the SCOTUS has violated its oath to
> uphold and defend the Constitution of the United
> States from enemies both foreign and domestic. It
> is against every principle of a republic to have
> five un-elected officials determine the law of the
> land. This is why Justice Scalia declared this
> decision “a threat to democracy.” This was not
> an overstatement. If this is allowed to stand, we
> no longer have a Constitutional Republic in
> America.
>
> What the Federal Government has become is
> proof that you can have the best form of
> government and still have bad government if you
> put bad people in it. The whole system by which we
> nominate our leaders has become distorted in order
> to favor incumbents and the establishment so that
> it is nearly impossible for the will of the people
> to prevail now.
>
> The government of the United States was
> not established to be the all-powerful authority
> over everyone, but rather to be the servant of the
> people. We, the people, are the sovereign and
> everyone who works in government is supposed to be
> working for us. It has now become a runaway
> monster that is consuming everything in its path.
> If the people do not rise up to take their
> authority back, then it will very soon require
> another revolution to recover democracy in
> America.
>
> The Foundation of Our Union
>
> The Constitution is the foundation upon
> which our Federal Government is based, and without
> the Constitution, our Federal Government no longer
> has legitimate authority to govern. There has been
> a long and continuous erosion of the links between
> the laws and actions of the Federal Government and
> the Constitution. This decision on same-sex
> marriage may seem innocuous and even frivolous to
> most Americans, but it represents such a radical
> decoupling the Federal Government from the
> Constitution that it will destroy the legitimacy
> of the Federal Government if allowed to stand.
>
>
> The overreach of our Federal Government
> has put itself in great jeopardy, and in recent
> years it has divided Americans into factions
> instead of uniting them. A growing chorus of
> states is talking seriously about secession, and
> this is a very real possibility.
>
> Pravda, the Moscow daily newspaper, has
> been predicting for years that the United States
> would break up into several pieces just like the
> Soviet Union. Their reasoning was not based merely
> on sour grapes, but on the historically proven
> consequences of the kind of direction in which our
> government has been going. To date, we have most
> alarmingly followed the pattern predicted. We
> really are close to breaking apart.
>
> For an overview of Separation of Powers within the
> Constitution see:
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers
> _under_the_United_States_Constitution
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