(October 12, 2020 at 2:19 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(October 12, 2020 at 2:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Well, that 'asshole GOP senator' was correct - the three branches are not co-equal. They're supposed to be, they were intended to be, but the legislative and judicial branches (both parties) have gradually ceded more and more power to the executive.
It's always seemed to me that originalism is a failed argument. Your founders were clever enough to know that the Constitution was a flawed document, which is why they included a mechanism to change it from time to time.
Boru
NO HE WAS NOT....... His argument was to maintain the status quo. And certainly throughout the history of the court, it has. But that same court has also told the social norms of it's time, "No, you cannot step on the rights of others, merely because you are the majority."
YES HE WAS. Are you denying that the power of the executive has eclipsed that of the other two branches?
Boru
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