Grassroot Americans

“At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account.”

– Thomas Jefferson (letter to Monsieur A. Coray, 31 October 1823)

The justices in California’s Supreme Court, unlike the Federal Supreme Court Justices have a limited term in office of 12 years. However, that didn’t seem to stop the ruling made in May of 2008 concerning the definition of Marriage. After seeing what these justices could do in spite of the will of the people at large, it’s clear to me that US Supreme Court justices have that same power. All the more reason, there should be considerable concern over the appointment of future justices.

We need to pray for our leaders; not just for the President, but for Congress and the Supreme Court as well. God is a big God, and he can move on the hearts of men (and women). Let’s pray that He does. And in California let us pray that He brings to justice to their Supreme Court.