It has always seemed strange to me that while the Constitution makes it extremely difficult to enact amendments, with buy-in from Congress and the states, somehow these nine unelected judges on the Supreme Court can warp its meaning on a whim. It takes only five of them to agree on even radical changes.
It has always seemed strange to me that while the Constitution makes it extremely difficult to enact amendments, with buy-in from Congress and the states, somehow these nine unelected judges on the Supreme Court can warp its meaning on a whim. It takes only five of them to agree on even radical changes.
Arguably, the power to declare legislation unconstitutional is not a power that the Constitution gives to the Court. The Court itself declared it had that right in the 1803 ruling in Marbury v Madison. I've heart that Thomas Jefferson was quite upset by the ruling.
It has always seemed strange to me that while the Constitution makes it extremely difficult to enact amendments, with buy-in from Congress and the states, somehow these nine unelected judges on the Supreme Court can warp its meaning on a whim. It takes only five of them to agree on even radical changes.
Arguably, the power to declare legislation unconstitutional is not a power that the Constitution gives to the Court. The Court itself declared it had that right in the 1803 ruling in Marbury v Madison. I've heart that Thomas Jefferson was quite upset by the ruling.