Rights and Liberties?

Question

While the courts have generally protected our individual freedoms, the American people tend to support the restriction of these rights in practice. What reasons do you believe account for this fundamental difference of view?

Answer 1

The courts are Anti-safety for the American people.
The Liberal USA courts seem to have forgotten to represent the will of the people. As the Liberal defeatacrat/demoncrap party has forgotten.

Answer 2

Because many people are often willing to be sheep.

But when you say "the American people" you can only ever be talking about some sort of statistical majority. Because I seriously doubt that you or anyone else sat down and interviewed each person individually. So, even if we grant your premise, all it really says it that the majority of people seem to be willing to give up their rights and allow the government (that they elected) to make decisions for everyone.

So, the Constitution sets certain limits on what the government is allowed to do. And that is because it was intended to protect the minority viewpoints, and protect people who weren't in power. The courts have the job of upholding those principles, and not allow the majority to make all the decisions, unchecked for everybody.

Because the majority doesn't have the right to give away freedom for everyone. Just being in the majority doesn't mean it gets to ignore the laws. And the highest laws are the constitutional protections that require the courts to protect the minorities from such actions.

The courts do not serve the majority interest. The courts serve the Constitution. And those protections apply to everyone, regardless of what freedoms the majority is willing to sacrifice.

Answer 3

I believe that lumping all people from one country into one belief is wrong. In fact, I am an American, but not employed by the courts and believe in the superiority of rights above any other consideration. Confusion comes easily when categories are too broad

Answer 4

Actually, I have found the courts to be equally or even more restrictive of our rights and liberties than anything else. Because they not only allow unconstitutional legislation and action from the other two branches, they have also legislated from the bench to additionally burden us.

The courts have allowed numerous assaults on our rights. Right to Free Speech (campaign finance laws, use of RICO against abortion protesters, etc), Right to freely associate (forcing school busing, declaring single sex schools unconstitutional, etc), right to freely exercise religion (preventing children from even mentioning God in graduation speeches, supporting those who remove all religion from public places), right to bear arms (gun control laws), the right to not be deprived of liberty or possession without due process (restraining orders issued with no evidence or due process, etc), the right to not have our private property be taken for public use, without just compensation (misuse of eminent domain to give our property to bigger taxpayers, taking of our earnings to pay for social security, medical treatment and welfare for others, etc), etc, etc.

Culminating at the gross violations of the 10th Amendment, where any power not listed in the Constitution was reserved for the states or the people.

Answer 5

People support issues that they feel they benefit from, while courts rely on precedent or interpretation of law (for the good of all).

Answer 6

FEAR sells!!!!! it gets ratings it gets results it allows the gov. to invade our lives because they tell us it will make us safer. When people are afraid they lose all cognitive reasoning
bush is the new nixon

Answer 7

Because of ignorance

Answer 8

Ignorance of their own rights