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Originally Posted by ilovetv
This is exactly the problem! "We the People" of California also spoke when they voted to define "marriage" as one man and one woman in their state.
But "that eminent tribunal", as Lincoln called it, over-reached and struck down the will of "we the people" in CA:
"....this kind of judicial presumption is not compatible with the American promise of popular self-rule. As Lincoln observed in his First Inaugural,
If the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Abraham Lincoln, the Supreme Court, and the Defense of Marriage Act | Public Discourse |
Using that knowledge I am sure that a vast majority of southern citizens were ok with slavery. They might not have had a prop to vet on but their elected officials chose to leave the union. Sometimes I wonder if this country would have been better to just let the south succeed.