The Escape Goats

Exactly the use the Canadian government has made in Canada, in my opinion, except even more transparently so. To my knowledge, all of the social engineering, abortion, gay rights, etc., was never decided on in Canada by vote. Instead, we had the government wait for it to go to court, then say they are just implementing the court's decision. No debate, no discussion (liberal press, state broadcaster) just a decision handed down from on high by your betters.

The problem of course, is that once all of this stuff gets decided that way and becomes law, it acquires a moral dimension and eventually people accept it, after all how can it be wrong if it's legal?

Again, it doesn't help that there are no alternative viewpoints on offer, in fact quite the opposite because it is now illegal to question some of these decisions, even by churches.

Canada is not necessarily socially liberal as the result of the popular will, but is more an example of the results of social engineering and legislating morality.

SCOTUS - doing the jobs (elected) Americans won't do!

Scottie: The SCOTUS is just like the illegals, huh? Both do things that are obviously illegal and both fill that all imortant need for a certain segment of society!

Philos: The courts are the ultimate bastion of liberalism and it there that liberal policy is implemented. The libs know without the courts they have NO chance of getting their ideas put into practice!

Right on the money. It's especially odious when Appellate and Circuit courts issue rulings instructing various legislative bodies to appropriate funds to implement various rulings. Talk about overstepping their authority!

I still like Jackson: "Mr. Marshall has his ruling. Now let him enforce it!"

Thanks for the comments, and feel free to plug the blog all over Townhall ;D!

I suppose you were thinking about the school fiasco in KC, wasn't it, where some judge decided that Olympic size pools and a model UN were going to help raise educational standards---all on the taxpayer's dime of course!

What is really galling to me is that Congress ALLOWS this type of thing to happen, just because they are afraid that the Constitutional experts at the NYT editorial board will slap them down. If Congress had the cajones to do its job, this type of deal couldn't go down at all!

I'd estimate that 30% or more of federal spending in unConstitutional and 35% of federal laws and regulations are in the same boat. It really is amazin' how that document, written in simple English and explained in detail in The Federalist Papers, can be sooooooo misunderstood. President Crawfish would work on rectifying the rectal-cranial inversion that is so pervasive in our nation.

That's one of the cases; there have been others, too.

Talk about usurping power! That kind of thing is egregious.

LOL on the plugs. Do I get a commission based on your hits? 10% to me?

Brian:10% sounds about right---that's the going rate for agents, right?

Crawfish: You are spot on! A great deal of what we see in the government is plainly unconstitutional, but that is what a "living Constitution" gets you. If the document only says what you want it to say, then it can mean whatever the powerbrokers say it means.

That's a term that seems to be making a comeback. When I was young(er), it was almost exclusively used by Brits, but now I see it used in these TH blogs all over the place.