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The Thomas Jefferson Discussion Group
of Orlando, Florida
Meeting No. 27 - July 16, 2003
Chapters Bookstore, Orlando, Florida
THIS MONTH'S TOPIC:
RECENT SUPREME COURT RULINGS
Two Major Supreme Court decisions have been made within the last month, one on the Texas sodomy case and one on the
University of Michigan's admission policy. What would Thomas Jefferson's
position have been on these two cases? There are always two
basic questions to be asked regarding Supreme Court cases:
- Was the Court justified in hearing the case in the first place? (this is
normally a state vs. federal government jurisdictional question). and,
- Was the Court's decision that right one? (Did the law in question violate
the federal constitutional?)
I hope you can join us to gently "bat" these issues around a little bit
Wednesday night.
Jefferson quotes of the month:
"A first attempt to recover the right of self-government may fail, so may a
second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more instructed race comes on,
the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or
some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed...
To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of
desolation pass over; yet the
object is worth rivers of blood and years of desolation. For what
inheritance so valuable can man leave to his posterity?"
--Thomas Jefferson
to John Adams, 1823.
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
--Thomas Jefferson
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