WAS THE CASE OF WONG KIM ARK DECIDED IN ERROR?
WAS THE CASE OF WONG KIM ARK DECIDED IN ERROR?
by Jim Delaney, blogging at Opinerlog
http://www.thepostemail.com/2011/03/26/ ... ompetence/
(Mar. 26, 2011) — Mindful of the litany of revisionist case law since the Constitution’s ratification, it is clear that stare decisis is a judicial principle fraught with constitutional perils. Why? One corrupted court ruling inevitably leads to another, compounding the corruption of original intent merely for the shortsighted and self-serving purpose of sanctifying precedent—a surefire judicial recipe for eventually ruling the Constitution out of existence. In this regard, Thomas Jefferson was right when he viewed with horror the growing menace of a runaway Supreme Court which increasingly valued “judicial supremacyâ€