If we are to be a nation of the people as set forth in the U.S. Constitution, we must have the ability, as citizens, to have our majority votes count. This means that laws must be changed or instituted using the voting booth and the legislature of our elected representatives in Congress.
When judges independently change the law or the intended outcome of a majority vote, the people lose. We lose our right to a representative government, our right to due process, our right to our freedom as guaranteed within the framework of our Constitution.
The Constitution begins "We the People of the United States." It says nothing about judges. The judiciary is covered in Article III, a healthy distance into the document. So how did the black robes end up running the country via their emperor-like thumbs up or down rulings? How did Thomas Jefferson's worst nightmare become our modern reality?
Consider Jefferson's statement below:
"The Constitution . . . meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch." —Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1804.
Ask yourself, what voice does today's voter really have? Judges decide when murdering unborn babies and incapacitated women is constitutional. Judges dictate if and when we can use the words "God" or "Christmas" in public. Judges forbid the image of a cross on a town's police badge, a county shield, a city mountaintop. After the people have spoken to their legislators through the ballot box, judges alone decide if homosexual unions can be called marriage or if illegal aliens can use taxpayer services, completely ignoring the will of the majority of voters on Election Day.
Now ask yourself: Are we there yet? Are we under despotic rule of the judicial branch of government that Jefferson feared?
You be the judge.
