Questions & Answers
In the Category: Courts, States, and Constitutional Order
- #JUD259 If a person charged with a crime in one State, shall flee from justice into the bounds of another State is he safe from pursuit and trial? No. If the Governor of the State where the crime was committed applies to the Governor of the State where he has taken refuge, the latter shall cause him to be delivered to the state in which the offe...
- #JUD260 How many States were there which revolted from Great Britain at the Revolution? Thirteen.
- #JUD261 Did they all agree to the Federal Constitution at the time it went into operation? Not all, but the rest came in soon after.
- #JUD262 Was it then expected that other future States would be formed and join the Union? Yes, and provision was made for admitting them.
- #JUD263 By whom were they to be admitted? By Congress.
- #JUD264 Is their number limited? No.
- #JUD265 Has any State the right to set up a monarchical form of government for itself, that is a government where the supreme power is in the hands of a king? No. At the time of our nation's founding the colonies were all individual republics. The new government they formed for the union of these republics was itself a representative republican model, which...
- #JUD266 Who is to see that this state of affairs is maintained? The Congress.
- #JUD267 Does Congress secure any privilege to the different States? Yes. It must protect them from attack or invasion by a foreign enemy. This is one of the most important benefits of our Union; each State has the protection of the whole.
- #JUD268 The majority of the people of any State may by due process certainly alter its laws, provided they do not violate the Constitution; but may the Constitution itself be altered? Yes. The Constitution being nothing more than an expression of the will of the people of the United States, is at all times within their own power, and they may change it as they see fit, but it ought...
- #JUD269 How is an amendment to the Constitution shown to be the will of the people? When two thirds (a super majority) of the members of both the Senate and the House of Representatives shall agree by a vote that an alteration would be proper, they may state such an alteration and pr...
- #JUD270 What is the supreme law of the United States? The Constitution itself is supreme; and all laws and treaties made by Congress and the President, in conformity with it, are superior to any law made by one of the States, so that if a law of a State...
- #JUD271 Is there any recourse for the State, if the Courts are misinterpreting the Constitution or if laws are being enforced (or not enforced) despotically or prejudicially? Yes, the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrate demands that all elected offices - even smaller State or local magistrates - must defend the Constitution of the United States. Within their means and abilit...
- #JUD272 What is the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrate? The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrate teaches that when the superior or higher ranking civil authority makes unconstitutional or immoral policies, the lower or lesser ranking civil authority has both...
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