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<blockquote data-quote="rbstern" data-source="post: 2862661" data-attributes="member: 40553">Anarchy much?If groups of people are going to live together under the umbrella of shared civic values, there needs to be an expression of those values, and a system for resolving inevitable conflicts.&nbsp; The expression, in the case of the United States, is the Constitution, and the system for resolving conflicts is the government our Constitution defines, including the judicial branch.Perfect?&nbsp; Hell no.&nbsp; Admitted to be not, by the very people who created it.&nbsp; Better than those which have come before it?&nbsp; Probably.&nbsp; Corruptible?&nbsp; You bet.&nbsp; All day, every day.All we can do is try to hold everyone accountable.&nbsp; SCOTUS did that with this decision.&nbsp; That doesn&#039;t make them our master; in this case, they acted as a steward for our rights, as written in the Bill of Rights.&nbsp; Is it sad that I should celebrate such an unusual event?&nbsp; Yeah.&nbsp; But it still beats Cuba, Somalia, China, Colombia, et. al., by a long shot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rbstern, post: 2862661, member: 40553"] Anarchy much? If groups of people are going to live together under the umbrella of shared civic values, there needs to be an expression of those values, and a system for resolving inevitable conflicts. The expression, in the case of the United States, is the Constitution, and the system for resolving conflicts is the government our Constitution defines, including the judicial branch. Perfect? Hell no. Admitted to be not, by the very people who created it. Better than those which have come before it? Probably. Corruptible? You bet. All day, every day. All we can do is try to hold everyone accountable. SCOTUS did that with this decision. That doesn't make them our master; in this case, they acted as a steward for our rights, as written in the Bill of Rights. Is it sad that I should celebrate such an unusual event? Yeah. But it still beats Cuba, Somalia, China, Colombia, et. al., by a long shot. [/QUOTE]

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