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To: koan who wrote (743527)	10/3/2013 12:17:32 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Recommended By Jorj X Mckie TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575538

Above has nothing to do with it. Truth isn't determined by status hierarchies. The court can be, and has been wrong (and sometimes itself recognizes that it had previously made a mistake). To use an extreme example to make the point - If congress passed a law saying that there would be a state religion, that all other religions would be prohibited, that speaking out against the law or publishing against it was forbidden, and that assemblies to protest the law, and complaining about the law to congress would both be punished by death (thus violating every part of the 1st amendment), then that law would be unconstitutional even if the supreme court decided otherwise. Of course normally (perhaps not in such an extreme case where you could get a revolution or coup against such a crazy government) if the USSC says something is constitutional it will be, and usually should be, treated as if it was constitutional, but it still in fact violated the constitution.