"Wayne Knight" wrote in message
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"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
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it is no exaggeration to say that the enactment of such legislation
would be the end of our system of government, as we have known it for
the
last two hundred years. the supreme court would rule that the
legislation
was unconstitutional, and if no one blinks, we have u.s. marshalls
putting
the supreme court under arrest, for some damn something. contempt of
congress?


You are more than likely more versed in constitutional law than some bean
counter in the eastern mid-west but didn't Andrew Jackson openly disregard
a
Supreme Court opinion? The point being I guess that something like this
has
already happened once and we survived it.

I agree with you Wayne. As a more recent example of the reverse happening,
the Supreme Court decided a deadlocked presidential election when the
Constitution calls for the dispute to be resolved by House of
Representatives (Art. II, Section 1).

Memphis Jim