Should the US Supreme Court Decide Cases Based on the Constitution or on Fairness?

[lucy]

lucy,

Thank you, by the way, for the information on Switzerland's process, I found it very interesting.

Off-topic, but I'm curious as to the minaret issue you first described? It seems exceedingly odd to me to write into law an architectural issue like putting a tower on a building ... what's the underlying problem this law is supposed to solve?

You're very welcome.
The minaret issue, oh my... *hangs head in shame*
Of course it's not supposed to solve any existing problem. There are currently exactly 2 minarets in all of Switzerland, and none of them causes any problem at all.
It was an initiative started by a right wing xenophobic party who also happens to be the largest party in Switzerland. Of course it's not about architecture, but a populistic initiative to 1. keep happy the right wing xenophobic idiots which are already party members, 2. try to get some new right wing xenophobic idiots to join the party and 3. to generally express their right wing xenophobic idiocy and 4. do something against islamistic terrorism. For me, that last (which is what they say) just about explains everything. I've met jellyfishes which were capable of more coherent lines of thought.

It will be voted down, tho. At least i veryveryvery much hope so.