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| Republican Platform: Kiss the Constitution Goodbye Posted by Adam Reed on 8/31/2004, 3:50pm | ||
| The US Republican Party consists of both unprincipled power-seekers, and principled people whose principles come from the imagined whims of their imaginary friend in the sky. Since the former have no principles, the Party Platform, the official statement of the principles by which the party will govern if it wins in November, was written by the latter. It is a blueprint for scrapping the Constitution and transforming the United States into a theocratic dictatorship. The plan for scrapping the constitution is in the section "Supporting Judges Who Uphold the Law" (against challenges based on the Bill of Rights.) This section mentions "using Article III of the Constitution to limit federal court jurisdiction." The second paragraph of section 2 of that Article says that the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction in some categories of cases, and appellate jurisdiction in other cases, "with such Exceptions .... as the Congress shall make." Since this section gives Federal Courts jurisdiction in "all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution," it is clear that permissible congressional "Exceptions" are limited to toggling between original and appellate jurisdiction for specific categories of cases. The Republican Platform, however, claims that Congress can make "Exceptions" that remove entire categories of legislative and executive action from judicial review by the federal courts. This is a plan for scrapping the constitution, since Republican politicians now claim the prerogative of exempting whatever they wish from ANY constitutional review. As Ayn Rand put it: "not fire and brimstone, but goo." | ||
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