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...status chasing was inescapable from the outset. If the chase had indeed rigidified the lines of class in the society, the symbols of status could only have become ever more clear. Reflecting upon that fact, one contemplates the present symbolic (and hierarchical) muddle with a light heart. -By Frank Trippett...
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...Essay on the federal courts [Sept. 28], Frank Trippett makes the common mistake of assuming that the primary job of the Supreme Court is to decide constitutional issues. The Constitution does not say which branch of Government has the final word on matters of interpretation. The Supreme Court assumed that power for itself in the famous case of Marburyys. Madison. Nevertheless, Congress, which is the most democratic branch of the Federal Government, has every right to challenge the court on this matter. It should decide what is the supreme law of our land...
...remembered is why the federal courts so frequently go against the grain of popular sentiment. More often than not they are doing what they, alone among U.S. institutions, were designed to do: safeguarding the fundamental rights of the individual against the potentially tyrannical attitudes of the majority. -By Frank Trippett...
...makes the human species difficult if not evil is the main thing that makes it interesting? If so, that is scarcely the only contradiction in the human drama. Alas, one may, plausibly enough, wonder whether humankind, if it had remained in Eden, might not have perished of ennui. -Frank Trippett...