The reason to veto the law is that it is illegal and wrong for the legislature to pass unconstitutional laws, and for the governor to ratify them.
Some politicians have a practise of passing laws they know or greatly suspect are unconstitutional, for political reasons, and rely on the court to overturn them, as if the constitutionality of a law is entirely the business of the judicial branch, and no concern of theirs; this practise is immoral and illegal, and those who engage in it ought to be pilloried for it. Each branch of government, and each member of the legislature and the executive, has an independent duty to uphold the constitution, including the duty to interpret it for themselves, in order to guide their actions.
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Date: 2005-09-12 01:16 am (UTC)Some politicians have a practise of passing laws they know or greatly suspect are unconstitutional, for political reasons, and rely on the court to overturn them, as if the constitutionality of a law is entirely the business of the judicial branch, and no concern of theirs; this practise is immoral and illegal, and those who engage in it ought to be pilloried for it. Each branch of government, and each member of the legislature and the executive, has an independent duty to uphold the constitution, including the duty to interpret it for themselves, in order to guide their actions.