Perhaps we will not end in civil war over the rampant fiatistic court system. The people could simply defund the judges (via Ann Coulter). I am strangely attracted to this idea.
Ms. Marshall has as much right to proclaim a right to gay marriage from the Massachusetts Supreme Court as I do to proclaim it from my column. The Massachusetts legislature ought to ignore the court's frivolous ruling – and cut the justices' salaries if they try it again.This is the crux of the thing:
While conservatives keep pretending we live in a democracy, liberals are operating on the rule of the jungle. The idea of the rule of law is that if your daughter is raped and murdered, you won't go out and kill the guy who did it. In return for your forbearance, you get to vote for the rulers who will see that justice is done. But liberals cheat. They won't let us vote on an increasingly large number of issues by defining the entire universe – abortion, gay marriage, high-school convocations – as a "constitutional" issue.You may disagree, but from this conservative's point of view - the Liberals cheat. Seems past time to fight back somehow. Excercising the people's right to set state salaries seems like as good a place to start as any.