7/24/2023 0 Comments Worst supreme court decisions ever![]() This time the outcome was different, largely because the Supreme Court refused to defend the Constitution.Īs many scholars have recognized, the justices’ dereliction of duty essentially amended the Constitution without following amendment procedures. But America previously had undergone similar crises without altering her form of government. The change occurred against the backdrop of economic depression and world war. This series focuses on a central cause-perhaps the central cause: the conscious abdication of responsibility by a handful of Supreme Court justices, primarily between the years 19. Major changes always have multiple causes. So how did it happen that federal functionaries now regulate nearly every aspect of our lives? How did a government designed to protect freedom become arbitrary and authoritarian? When did it start to incentivize bad behavior, both among officials and the people at large? Why does it run deficits every year, and why do those deficits keep getting bigger? It was a frugal institution, designed to “preserve the blessings of Liberty” and to bring out the best in human beings. The Constitution created a relatively small federal government, with powers limited to certain listed subjects. Because the entire series is now in one place, transitional material between installments has become unnecessary and it has been removed. ![]() But to make the series easier to read, it is combined and reproduced here. It explains a central event in the conversion of the federal government from the relatively small version created by the Constitution to the dysfunctional, overreaching “monster state” of today: the refusal, by a packed and unprincipled Supreme Court, to enforce constitutional limits on federal politicians.Įach installment was posted to this website. The Epoch Times published this seven-part series from January 17 to February 4, 2022. None had any significant judicial experience before being appointed to the highest tribunal in the nation. Left to right (including both rows): Reed, Byrnes, Roberts, Douglas, Stone (C.J.), Murphy, Black, Jackson, Frankfurter. Above: SCOTUS in 1942-possibly the weakest Supreme Court ever.
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