Posted by Citizen Bob on 11/04/06 18:11

On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 09:34:02 GMT, Paul Hyett
<pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote:

>>I agree that Congress taking bribes to pass laws (and that is exactly what
>>lobbyists do) is a serious problem, probably one of the most serious
>>problems facing this country. However, as long as the laws it passes comply
>>with Constitutional, they are legitimate and enforceable.

>Like the 18th Amendment was?

Legitimacy is based on the consent of the governed. Enforceability is
based on the end of a gun barrel.

If statutory law were always legitimate, blacks would still be sitting
in the back of buses.


--

"First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth
make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or
pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the
outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of
the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do
justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the world."
--Clarence Darrow

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