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Show 156 Supreme Court and refuses to appropriate money for their maintenance, thEm we become what early writers coiled (I mobocracy. Fair ploy has gone. If the courts take to themselves the power of using [udlc lol review to such an extent that the Court becomes a legislative body, which is contrary to the Constitution, and strikes down laws so commonly as has been done in the last few months, then the will of the people of the country is overcome by a smaller group stili, and we have an 0ligorehy.12 In other Thomas made the comments going quotations fron. his remarks American Government, legislation, having the on that when the the first word to as common I Supreme Court posses what should stand its chosen on the finally as Executive with reference to two mooted the advice and consent clause of the subiect law, representatives, of thwart .... it consti- Congress Thomas attacked the questions between the two. the interpretation of the phrase "edvlce and consent"; When we make the motion in the Senate we consider it a single oct. Advice and consent have been deemed by practically all our Executives to be Q singt,. act in other pori iaments. Very likely they were CiI single act when the words were taken from British constitutional law and incorporated into our law However, the fact remains that in creating the Senate of the United States, which was an entirely new thing, [ust as the federal system was a new thing in government and politics, it was assumed that the Unlted States Senate would be equiva• , cit. In re9ards Constitution, already spoken of he stated: During the time I have studied the American Con stitution, 1 have felt that a serious mistake was made in Loc of super-legislative body. a 1=0 further make manifest the supremacy of 12 in the fore- subJect, understood by students ing the will of the people manifested through tuted itself point indicated to |
