New Reply

Post a Reply

Thread: American Justices made Two “5-4 decisions”

Title: (100 characters at most)

Content: ( 3,000 characters at most, please )

You can add emoticons below to your post by clicking them.

[quote=YINDUFFY,302111]The task of the U.S. Supreme court is to rule on whether a law is constitutional or not. This means that they decide if a particular law which may have been passed by a town, State or Federal legislature is legal under the provisions and protections of the U.S. Constitution. The Court does not make laws.
   Usually someone challenges the law and the decision to rule on it gets passed up through lower levels of judges until it reaches the Supreme Court. 
   Both sides of an issue present their cases to the assembled judges and they review the documents and make a ruling. Their ruling is only whether the issue is allowed or not allowed under the Constitution. They always make comments along with their ruling and these give insight as to their logic.
    The Supreme Court has dodged the issue of ruling on a Second Amendment issue for many, many years. They usually have referred the cases to State's courts. Because the case brought before them was about a law in the Capitol city, Washington, District of Columbia - a Federal entity - the Court was forced to hear the case and make a ruling.
     The court ruled that the 1976 law in D.C. banning private handgun ownership was incompatible with the
2nd Amendment.
   "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" was interpreted to be an individual's right to own a handgun for self defense and although the D.C. government could regulate ownership, it could not ban it outright.
     I am one who firmly believes that if anyone comes to take my guns they will have to pry them from my cold, dead hands. I will not willingly surrender my means of self defense. It is part of my cherished heritage as an American.
[/quote]

characters left

Name:

Get a new code