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‘tatute permitting the reading °° le verses at the opening of achool classes. The court apparently forgot the words of Lord Coke who said, "Stare Decisis is mighty in the law, but reason and coimmor sense is mightier." Bere was a case where the United States Supreme Court could have announced to the world that we are a religiously inspire: Democracy and that the words on our silver coins, "In God We Trust" mean what they purport. Congress has the Constitutional power to limit the juris- diction of the Supreme Court. It can narrow the kind of causes to be heard by the Court. Congress can algo enact legislation to re- yerse its rulings. It can also nullify the effects of decisions already decided as it did in the Tidelands cases, in which the Court decided that title to offshore lands belonged to the Federal govern- ment. By legislation Congress restored these off-shore lands to the states in which title always stood before the Tidelands decision, > The importance of the Court's decisions is far'reaching. They become precedents in the Federal Jurisdiction and lawyers cite them in the state courts. They are algo cited in cases before Congressional Committees and even before state boards. It would have been more orderly in doubtful cases, particularly those in- volving the security of the country, to resolve these doubts in favor of the United States. Chief Justice John Marshall, when beset by doubts, always resolved them in favor of the United States. In the 14 Communist cases, it would have been better for the court to i ct a g&asi BE CO s id, that force have upheld the convictions instead of hold and violence must be accompanied by a plan detailing how the violenc was to be committed. It is naive to imagine that the force and violence which the 14 Communists were preaching, were only academic discussions. Any American layman conversant with the aims cf Communism, especially if he had read the "Communist Manifesto", “Daily Worker" and many other liberal and left wing pamphlets, could have supplied the Court with copious material defining what the Communists mean by "force and violance". The program of the Communists is to wreck all world goverr ments which do not absorb the tenets of Marx and Engeis. Particular if singling out the United States as the prize conquest of their Program, the wrecking of the American system of government will mark the end of their world wide conspiracy to subjugate all free peoples to their totalitarian philosophy. -17-