This is what happens when our people are not instructed in the principles of liberty as our founding fathers warned us about. This was common knowledge back in their day, yet seems foreign to most people in America today:
No Branch of our Federal Government has any legitimate power to grant any person or entity full immunity for any act that violates the individual natural rights of Americans. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy (agent) is greater than his principal; that the servant is above the master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people; that men, acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. It is not to be supposed that the Constitution could intend to enable the representatives of the people to substitute their will to that of their constituents. A Constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by judges as fundamental law. If there should happen to be a irreconcilable variance between the two, the Constitution is to be preferred to the statute.
This is what happens when our people are not instructed in the principles of liberty as our founding fathers warned us about. This was common knowledge back in their day, yet seems foreign to most people in America today:
No Branch of our Federal Government has any legitimate power to grant any person or entity full immunity for any act that violates the individual natural rights of Americans. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy (agent) is greater than his principal; that the servant is above the master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people; that men, acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. It is not to be supposed that the Constitution could intend to enable the representatives of the people to substitute their will to that of their constituents. A Constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by judges as fundamental law. If there should happen to be a irreconcilable variance between the two, the Constitution is to be preferred to the statute.