Reply #1: The whole crux of the issue is this:

[TahitiNut]

There are some who believe in 'strict construction' when it comes to civil liberties and human rights, but find all manner of "powers" when it comes to government. It's the most obscene of all reversals.

The Constitution very clearly limits the powers of government, reserving all (enumerated or not!) rights, liberties, and freedoms to the People - who cannot "vote them away"!!! There is absolutely no ethical interpretation of the Constitution that permits the Executive or Legislature to expand the power and authority of Government beyond the strict boundaries of the Constitution or, through legislated entitlements (i.e. corporations), create authoritarian clones that obliterate individual human rights and civil liberties!!

In answer to the question of "Does a Democracy have the 'right' to commit suicide?" I answer: "Not through the mechanism of government established under the Constitution!" The Constitution, properly understood, prohibits the government it establishes from being used as the gas chamber for Democracy.

At the very core of the powers of government is the power to protect those very rights and liberties from infringement of any kind, especially from "enemies, foreign and domestic"! The very underpinnings of a Constitutional government are the ongoing rights, liberties, and freedoms of a People to even establish the Constitution itself! In failing to defend those those rights and freedoms, a government delegitimizes itself! Oligarchs are those very "enemies"!! Plutocrats are those very "enemies"!

Roberts has demonstrated absolutely no comprehension of this fundamental, being an authoritarian sycophant.