Charles Edison Quotes
A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.
Edison, Charles. "Address on Constitutional Reform." Journal of the Senate of the State of New Jersey, State of New Jersey, 1941.
The comment was prompted by FDR’s attempt to “pack” the Supreme Court.
While most Islamic fundamentalists supported the lower court decision, there were many who saw the tradition as having nothing to do with Muslim theology. While fornication is a serious sin, it is equally sinful for a man before marriage as a woman, yet the same clerics who rail against a woman committing such a sin, assume that a man’s similar act is “natural.” Modern Muslim clerics such as Boubakeur not only refused to use the religion to justify old tradition, but was particularly critical of civil law being used to support religious customs. The French Justice Minister appealed the case but the French left and right politicians who were secular were pitted against the French minority which saw the decision as the state finally giving respect and credence to the culture and religion of minorities.
Presidential dissatisfaction with the judiciary is an old and common problem.
The country was growing and the number of Federal Judges were totally inadequate. The main reason is that the Senators were appointed by state legislatures and states did not want any Federal Judges perhaps weakening the power of the state governments and the judiciary.
Note Jenner’s paranoia of an “invisible government”. In the 20th century there were several left wing and right wing conspiracy theories held by the party extremists. This was one of the right wing conspiracy theories. There have been individual members of the US Government—appointees and Civil Servants--, who have been spies and extremists who did not believe in the Constitution. Some of these have been covert and others overt as in the George W, Bush administration where there were a few officials who believed that officials could torture when it was against the law. At no point were these many and in most cases—especially with spies—they never knew each other or communicated. They certainly never could be reasonably be called an “invisible government.” However some extreme leftists have believed that there was a cabal of wealthy men—right wing extremists--who operated such an invisible government. Likewise, there were rightist politicians who believed erroneously that there was such an invisible government implementing Communistic policies. From the 1930s through the 21st century, there were some racists—usually Southerners—who saw all government officials who supported racial equality and integration as Communists and anti-Constitutionalists forming a secret government to racially integrate the country. Those officials were generally not invisible at all, and it was their overt support for an end to racism that made them “subversive.”
Webster had been a lawyer his entire professional life and served as a distinguished Federal Judge and later as Director of the CIA and FBI. He was a stickler for adhering to the law. Casey, in contrast, was very frequently trying to get around any legal or Constitutional restrictions that might prevent him from doing what he liked. Since most of the CIA activity is secret and not amenable to oversight, his violations were not known to Congress and the public until years after his service.
Charles Edison was an American politician, businessman, inventor and animal behaviorist. He was the Assistant and then United States Secretary of the Navy, and served as the 42nd Governor of New Jersey. Commonly known as "Lord Edison", he was a son of Thomas Edison and Mina Miller Edison.
