The American Spectator

Reader Mail

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as well. br> -- Michael Robkin br> Altadena, California /p> p> BEN UNBURDENED br> Re: Reader Mail's Concentrated Minds and Ben Stein's Simply Terrifying : /p>

I'm amazed by the number of your correspondents who fail to understand the most basic principles of our form of government, as shown in their opinions on the Schiavo matter.

We have three independent branches of government. It is the duty of the legislative branch to pass laws, of the executive to approve and enforce them, and of the judicial branch to determine the applicability of the laws in individual cases. It was never the intent of the Founders to allow judges to make laws, nor for them to override the intent of the legislators.

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