Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: The draft and the Constitution Message-ID: <1166@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 22:21:06 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1166 Posted: Wed Mar 7 22:21:06 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 01:09:48 EST References: <1165@sdccs7.UUCP>, <131@alberta.UUCP> Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 9 == The question of the Draft aside, I am not sure that the courts are obliged to act so as to support the government that created them. A venerable axiom of common law states: "Fiat justitia, ruit coelum." American courts generally honor this principle. (Though I suspect that the Chief Justice finds it galling ...) Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel