Brain Fertilizer

Once upon a time (I can't be bothered to look up an entry on Wikipedia...honestly, people! Do I have to do everything for you?!? Oh, okay, if you insist...), the federal courts made a decision about the Cherokee Indians situation in the state of Georgia. I still think they made the right decision.

However, President Jackson did not. According to Wikipedia, he didn't say, "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!" However, he absolutely refused to do his duty as outlined by the US Constitution: he refused to enforce the law as determined by the Supreme Court.

Even if Congress is overstepping its bounds in the Terri Schiavo case, it is by far less margins than the Indian Removal decision by President Jackson. The United States managed to limp along for a number of years after that, eh? So perhaps our system of govt is actually quite flexible, able to deal with minor mistakes and failures to live up to the ideal.

If it is wrong to preserve Terry Schiavo's life long enough to try to determine what her prognosis actually is (in the absence of Mr. Schiavo's obstructionist actions), then enough people will act to punish those involved. If it is wrong, and the govt attempts to take advantage of this self-created loophole, the people will notice and put a stop to it.

In fact, one could easily look at this development and realize that perhaps this is a People-supported move to curtail the over-extension of power by the Judicial Branch, as supported and abetted by Democrat Senators. The only reason it has gone this long is that, well, that's a different post, eh?