Abraham Lincoln said at Gettysburg, "...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
In the movie V for Vendetta V said, "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
I share these two because the United States of America government on all levels (federal, state, county, city, township, etc.) is for The People and when The People as a whole speak Their word is law no matter what Their elected officials and the politicians say. The People should not be afraid that Their government will overturn Their wishes.
When Proposition 8 was put onto the November 4th Election Ballot in California it was The People that decided to make it a constitutional amendment to the California State Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. It passed above a 50% plus majority and The People spoke. Now the California Supreme Court is going to look at it and there is a high chance CSC will overturn the majority of The People and not bow to the Voice of The People.
This is completely wrong in my opinion. When The People speak the government is to listen, not the other way. The power of all things in America rests with The People. If They, The People, don't like what is going on They can come together to vote on it outside of representation government and pass the law. That is what is granted to Us, The People.
Should the California Supreme Court overturn the Voice of The People it will be a sad day for America. It will show that the power is no longer with the people, but with the Government. It will be the Government that decides on all things, the people will have been forgotten and we are no longer a nation "of the people, by the people, for the people" and it will have "perish[ed] from the earth." Abraham Lincoln had a vision of the post-Civil War United States of America and if it is allowed for the CSC to overturn the people then that vision is dead and lost.
