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To: tejek who wrote (307245)	10/23/2006 9:07:30 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1571205

In your opinion, if congress passed a clearly unconstitutional law (say a law establishing Lutheranism as the official state religion) should the president work to enforce the law until the USSC tells him otherwise? Only if the system isn't working; that is, if the courts do not step in right away. And if they don't step in run away, then something is very wrong with the system and probably not just with the courts. There is always some delay in the courts. Even if its a relatively minimal delay in this case should the executive branch put its muscle behind this policy until its overturned? Also for the president to even determine that the system is not working, that the courts are not stepping in when they should, he has to interpret the constitution. If he does not interpret it than if the courts never step in he has to assume that he has no idea that the constitution is being violated.