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To: LTK007 who wrote (77531)	5/8/2008 11:39:57 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

The Constitution never did actually give the Judiciary the right to rule over which laws were legal under the Constitution. That power was claimed by Chief Justice John Marshall in his ruling for Marbury v. Madison. It really was the one missing piece of the checks and balances which has allowed our country to continue for two centurys. Only a fool or Scalia (but I repeat myself) would try to change that ruling. At the time it seemed so likely that the country would fall to a dictatorship that only the intervention by George Washington, who still commanded great respect in the Army, was able to stop a coup. John Marshall's new interpretation of the Constitution saved the country. TP