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> SCOTUS acts like a classic common law court: the law exists independently of the courts, in the people, and the task of the court is to discover it I hope, f
by antillean 11y ago
> SCOTUS acts like a classic common law court: the law exists independently of the courts, in the people, and the task of the court is to discover it
I hope, for the sake of American democracy, that this just isn't true.
- erispoe 11y agoWhy? It takes more than 50% of expressed votes every two years to make a functionnal democracy.
- antillean 11y agoI don't even know where to begin. And I mean that literally. I started typing about five different responses, each beginning differently. None of them seemed to work, and besides I would've probably ended up typing too much anyway. Instead I refer you to: 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_(political) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_(political) and http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legitimacy/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legitimacy/