The judicial branch consists of the
U.S. Supreme Court and the
Federal Judicial Center. According to the Constitution, "[t]he judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish." The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency for the federal courts.
http://www.house.gov/content/learn/branches_of_government/
http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/landmark_01.html
http://constitutioncenter.org/constitution/the-articles/article-iii-the-judicial-branch
These are for starters, but to make the point clear there will be no debate or argument regarding forum rule #15
We have a judiciary branch - it is a part of our government (imperfect as it may be) and there will not be any argument to the contrary on this forum.
http://forum.opencarry.org/forums/misc.php?do=showrules
Nobody is disputing the fact that we have a Judiciary Branch. you seem to be twisting my words and trying to silence me. If that is what you want, then just kick me off this forum since my views are to Constitutionally extreme for you.
The question is : What gives SCOTUS the authority to interpret/change the meaning of the Constitution?
The Founders warned of an out of control Judiciary.
Jefferson's warning:
Thomas Jefferson wrote, in 1823:
"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."
The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please."
Thomas Jefferson
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"
Samuel Adams
Even a Supreme Court Justice warns us:
"Day by day, case by case, the court is busy redesigning a Constitution for a nation I do not recognize."
Justice Antonin Scalia
Enough quotes for anyone to plainly see that my question and concern are validated.