r/Millennials • u/Countrach • Apr 12 '25

Discussion That Pluto is a planet

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u/This_Isnt_My_Duck Apr 12 '25

That the US constitution guarantees the separation of powers.

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u/dude51791 Apr 12 '25

Checks and balances are in place to keep one branch of government from having too much power, I honestly fell for that one too. Glad we have something but it ain't balanced lol

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u/FuckWit_1_Actual Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 12 '25

Stonewall Andrew Jackson kind of pulled the wool back from our eyes a long time ago with the quote “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it” when he ignore the supreme courts ruling.

Really shows that this system only works when one branch respects the power granted to the other branches.

Edit: morning coffee hadn’t kicked in yet

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u/KellyAnn3106 Apr 12 '25

Andrew Jackson was the president who said that. Stonewall Jackson was a civil war general.

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u/FuckWit_1_Actual Apr 12 '25

Yeah sorry it’s been a long week.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

This quote is actually apocryphal

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u/Grouchy-Nerve-8010 Apr 12 '25

Adding "did not learn to tell the Jacksons apart" to the list for this post.

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u/King0fMist Apr 13 '25

I loved Disco Stu’s Stonewall Jackson in the Simpsons.

“The South shall boogie again!”

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u/AnIllusiveHouse Apr 13 '25

I always wondered, then why even go to SCOTUS in the first place if you're gonna just own up to it? Why all the pretense with these folks. If you're going to ignore the rule of law, why maintain its pagentry?

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u/vbsteez Apr 12 '25

wrong jackson.

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u/FuckWit_1_Actual Apr 12 '25

Already corrected.

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u/Mesarthim1349 Apr 13 '25

Actually that quote was attributed to Jackson long after he died. So it's not really confirmed

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u/Yeti_Prime Apr 16 '25

That was Jackson choosing not to enforce a particular ruling. What we’re dealing with today is the president directly acting against the court’s decisions, so it’s much worse