Show I 1 i The Great American Oligarchy lIE HE of the United States and of the states i I T by three ordinate co-ordinate brn or or dep rh of The Thc e the l legislative e arid and thu tho In none c of these power inherent each sways only the authority I by the thu people The rhe three branches s are arc tiLe the instrument S I which operates tin tho WIll of the people and the members I are arc the of the pc people pl Theoretically no unit of tIllS this trIpod tripo 1 ma encroach upon or interfere with another in actual practice for th the I past half century the power of the legislative e an and executIve branche S f has been slowly but insistently usurped b by the judicial until the courts court 3 not only make kc laws as legislators construe them as ns judges but the exercise di discretionary power as executives in in determining which statutes statutes statutes stat stat- utes shall be enforced and aud which shall not branch of national and state gO eminent nl I Not ot only has bas the tho judicial go J broadened its scope without authority of or law lair or ur constitution to gather gathe r I unto Jt itself elf the power powel o of lau makin la and hut but power powen that the people never granted are arc being constantly and I The judges judges' sacred persons have 0 been gradually clothed clothe with a 1 and despotic authority would have bave been at nt once nce the envy eny I and tho the wonder of George III nr against whom the he American colonie colomes 3 I revolted lc While members of the executive and aud legislative ve branches o oS ot of S the government gO are arc but hul ordinary ciL citizens zens whose only recourse e against unjust erit criticism cism is bv by due process of law the members of the tho judiciary judicial department cut ha have become monarchs with unlimited plenary power over oel the l liberty bert and the tho property of every erp t iti TJ The executive of a commonwealth is is open to criticism His ever c every official act may be bc ruthlessly sly probed in ill public anti and lJ his 8 motives moti questioned questioned questioned ques ques- if in the doing there lucre be bc an injustice un under er the law In the tho only t recourse e o ol 01 tIle the t gon governor is to 10 o hale l his s critic into court where the hitter is entitled to a trial trial by jury The l legislator who feels that discussion of his acts and his reasons have Imo done him an fin injustIce must t d also aho o find md his remedy at law where a jury deci decides es as to the merits of his case The judge e alone alono through h arbitrary exercise of a dangerous p power nver summarily cites his critic before him and aud without trial by br jury or 01 anything mythin more than purely farcical proceedings strips him of ol his property and deprives cs him m of his liberty If such autocratic power I shall be vested in one branch of government wh why not in others others' 1 If a aI judge may send II ins his is traducer to jail without trial or warrant in in law I why may not the governor of a commonwealth exercise the same power or the president of the state senate If one branch of government is is absolute arbiter of what is and what is not just criticism why should I all departments not have the same authority lJ r I The victims in iu instances such as that in in Idaho have no recourse were it possible lc for them to a appeal peal to to another ti tribunal their hope of eventual justice could bc be hut but slight ht since SInce the judicial habit of approving a ing nS' nS the acts of brother judges in in all cases touching the privileges of this Luis newly created American oligarchy is well unde understood tood I Why hy should the judicial branch enjoy power not granted to the f executive ve or 01 legislative c By what strange alchemy in this great republic e of law and order do the tIC attributes of an ordinary lawyer m mysteriously lr be become ome upon elevation to the bench beuch those of a supernatural supernatural super super- I natural being with o sole control of the tho middle justice the high and the |