Recently, I attended a town meeting with Karen Shepherd. I was absolutely appalled at what I heard.
In defending her vote for the Freedom of Choice Act, she said that the act was conducive to recent Supreme Court rulings and the language contained in the Roe vs. Wade decision and that the Supreme Court is the "supreme law of the land," and that she will obey their rulings.I thought the Constitution of the United States was the supreme law of the land and that the Supreme Court was created by the Constitution and that Congress was an integral part in the check and balance process upon the Supreme Court. But now, Shepherd has given us a new doctrine - that the creature can exceed the creator.
James Madison, the father of the Constitution, has stated, "Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the legislature as by the judicial authority."
Abraham Lincoln said, "I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court . . . At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having . . . resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
President Andrew Jackson stated, "The opinion of the judges has no more authority over the Congress than the opinion of Congress has over the judges, and . . . the president is independent of both. The authority of the Supreme Court must not . . . be permitted to control the Congress or the executive."
Monty Maxfield
West Jordan