Blog: 14th Amendment, Section 5. Congress Shall Have Power to Enforce....

Section 5 of the 14th amendment defines the authority of CONGRESS NOT THE COURT for legislation regarding the 14th amendment: Hence - the slave issue - an amendment; - the women's vote - an amendment; the Indian rights - an amendment

So today the attention is on Section 1 by a panel of UNELECTED PERMANENT branch of government:

Section 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. 

It is a very very dangerous path we are walking to continually have the Supreme Court MAKE laws. This is NOT the role of the Court. Roe VS Wade becoming a law was the beginning of the imbalance of the Supreme Court. BUT because it was a social issue that the population was primed to believe could only be resolved by the COURT as is today's issue we are allowing ourselves to be GOVERNED BY UNELECTED panel of 9 lawyers. YIKES.

There is an article I came across written by Thomas Jefferson: "At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and IRRESPONSBILITY in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, passed silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions nevertheless become law by precedent, sapping by little and little the foundations of the Constitution, and working its change by construction, before anyone has perceived that the invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life if secured against liability to account."

"This member of he government was at first considered asthe most harmless and helpless of oall its orangs. But it has prov tha the powe of declaring wht the law is ad libitum, by sappg an dminig, slyly, nd wihtout alarm, the foundations of the Constituion, can do wha OPEN FORCE WOULD NOT DARE TO ATTEMPT."

"The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please." Thomas Jefferson

So when will the Supreme Court handle the Second Amendment, the invasion of trespassers, or even the validity of Worship.

Today's issue is not what the media would have you believe - rather it is an infringement of power by the Supreme Court.  What woud be best is if they would each reflect within all the solemness this Holy Week requires (be they observing Passover or Paschal Mystery) and recognize the limitations the Judicial branch has in altering the Constitution.  Even to the point of considering what  Jefferson wrote in 1800:  "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man".