Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!phri!marob!cowan From: cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Judge for Yourself Keywords: Fact Fancy Paranoid Bizarre Message-ID: <27244FFF.4093@marob.masa.com> Date: 23 Oct 90 14:13:19 GMT References: <1990Oct04.001804.18056@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <1990Oct20.224407.23367@world.std.com> <1990Oct21.201454.11513@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Organization: The Logical Language Group, Inc. Lines: 19 In article <1990Oct21.201454.11513@ddsw1.MCS.COM> zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes: > >Yes, and the supreme court is now not at all separate from the political >process. The constitution is SO great. I have only two amendments I would >like to make: > The Supreme Court is only 12 people. That is TO MUCH POWER in the hands >of twelve people. It should be increased to 50 or a like number. Open mouth, insert foot, close mouth. 1) The size of the Supreme Court has been 9 for many years. It has never been an even number. 2) The size of the Court is decided by Congress, not by the Constitution. 3) >Fifty??!< How can 50 people decide >anything