1. The Judiciary Branch should be able to overturn a populary elected decision. I say this because the Judiciary branch is there to interpret the laws and make sure they are constitituional and are not affecting our rights that americans have to come to enjoy. If they cannot overturn a majority than they cannot truly protect our rights.
2. The judiciary may have been overrulling the will of the people, but I feel that it was doing the people a favor and they have yet to realize it. The constitutional ground for overrulling the will of the people is that if this is allowed, than the public schools will start telling how gay marriage is ok, and that it will start to affect the heterosexual part of society and that is not allowed by the Constitution. But it is allowed for heterosexual marriages because that is the way society is to be healthy as the decision said. A similar exampe of this is proposition 22, which made only hetero marriages legal in California, but the courts struck it down as unconstitutional.
3. I think that there should be a universal description of marriage for to clarify this for US citizens. But I don't think we should do that, just for to clarify. If it is written down, it would be like the Roman Twevlve Tablets; it could not be changed. As long as it is not written down, the definition can be twisted either way to suit whoever is using it. One instance where the government ha to make a universal law for all people is the instance in which the United States government made the child labor laws.
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