Joshua Boston, X-Marine

[Jekemi]

Joshua Boston, the former Marine, who was interviewed by CNN recently made a startling statement, one that rings loudly with an element of truth. "Unconstitutional Laws are not Laws." He's partially right (although I agree with him in principle and spirit). In our system Congress can make a law and the President can sign the law but it is up to the Supreme Court to determine if the law coincides with the Constitution. The 2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights clearly states that the government will not infringe upon the right of the people to own and bear firearms. Therefore, when the Congress or the President attempts to pass a law that they clearly know will violate the 2nd Amendment they are wasting there time, wasting our tax dollars, and violating their oath of office. Imagine if the Congress passed a law that said, "American citizens can no longer engage freely in political speech without prior Congressional approval." At that point the true meaning of the 2nd Amendment becomes vitally important and practical.

[csaaphill]

supreme court usually goes along with the Gov though just look at Obama care clearly unconstitutional but was upheld.

[Crunchy]

This guy thinks like me.

Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right. It may be said, that the succeeding generation exercising, in fact, the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law had been expressly limited to nineteen years only. In the first place, this objection admits the right, in proposing an equivalent. But the power of repeal is not an equivalent. It might be, indeed, if every form of government were so perfectly contrived, that the will of the majority could always be obtained, fairly and without impediment. But this is true of no form. The people cannot assemble themselves; their representation is unequal and vicious. Various checks are opposed to every legislative proposition. Factions get possession of the public councils, bribery corrupts them, personal interests lead them astray from the general interests of their constituents; and other impediments arise, so as to prove to every practical man, that a law of limited duration is much more manageable than one which needs a repeal." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789