Free Market News Network
by Noel Gibeson

01/12/06

The newsmedia and nation are currently focused on the Judge Samuel Alito's Senate confirmation hearings in Washington, DC. Because the confirmation hearings are underway for the next Supreme Court seat, now is an excellent time to reflect, in a very broad way, on how far we have come since our founding fathers wrote the U. S. Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court is supposed to interpret laws to ensure that they strictly conform to the U.S. Constitution; that the government was to have only limited powers and that all other powers were reserved to the people since they already possessed them under natural law anyway. The Constitution limited government, but not people’s natural rights. The Constitution was designed to stop the tyranny of kings and other despots – by limiting the power of the new government to prevent such despotism. This was and is the primary function of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)...

http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/94/3426/2006-01-12.asp?wid=94&nid=3426


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp