-- At 12:43 PM 3/30/2001 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
Marbury vs. Madison was an entertaining power grab by the Supremes, but while it may not have been explicitly planned by the bunch of politicians who wrote the messy compromise that's the Constitution, the Constitutional requirement that there be a hierarchy of courts with one Supreme Court means that something like it should happen.
Not "should happen", "would happen" To say that the constitution implicitly implies Marbury vs. Madison is true only in the way that for a girl to walk through a dark alley in a short short skirt implies consent for sex with random strangers in the alley. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG SmWWLGhDkaom2nZX4Vi9cCLQT0fxuw4s7BI+tfCq 4yULnjP1D6fY3fx8tINOn7HgtxGQV5/8BL9u6NASi