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CHURCHES SPEAK ~~ ~ 4 ce ee Epi “Religious liberties and cioil liberties} yO rath independence eratic government in of the judsciary de- dmerica is at stake.” the dictator “If an independent judiciary is lost, de- mocracy itself is ost,” Stand or fall together. (See more extended quotatians on reverse side af this Petition.) Eve circulating one of these petitions is asked to impress on all signers the vital Enportance of writing personally, and at once, to their Congressman and to the two Senators from their State expressing in their own language their - opposition to any bill destroying the independence of the Supreme Court of tha United States. The names of the Congressman and Senators, if not known to every signer, oan eaeily be obtained from the local newspaper. - For more copies of this Petition and lit-rature on the Supreme Court Issus, a write NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO UPHOLD CONSTITUTIONAL GOV- - ERNMENT, Times-Union Building, Rochester, N. Y. ONLY THEY DESERVE LIBERTY WHO ARE WILLING TO FIGHT FOR IT TO MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES: Wa, the undersigned, citizens of the United States, exercising our right of petition, protest agsinst the President's bill, or any substirutes, permitting the Executive branch of the government to control or mbordinate the Judicial or the Legislative powers established under the Constitution, This bill would give to the President the power to remake the Supreme Court and to pack it with men te interpret the Constitution as he wishes, Such concentration of power is dangerous even in the hands of the best-intantioned maa. . _ The framers of the Constitttion divided the government into independent Legislative, Executive and Judicial departments, because history shows that concentration of those powers in one department, or ia one man, inevitably leads to dictatorship. ; . “ "This bil would establish euch concentration of power as no one at any time in any place has been able to wee for the public good. The independent branches of the government would become the instruments of the White House. Public respect for the courts and the Congress, so essential in a democracy, would be If one President fs allowed in this fashion to create a Supreme Court to interpret the Constirution 90 28 to validate the laws he desires, neither he nor his successors will have to consult the will of the people eoncerning fatere amendménts. ‘ We therefore protest, and demand that the.constitutional safeguards of an independent judiciary ‘The power to amend our Constitution Is not the Executive's, to exercise by indirection. It is not yours be surrender. It bb ours, and we look to you, trustees of the people's liberties, to protect it. How you vou on this beve bs ell-mporsant, now and in the future. : * ss New Stregt and Number Gity State - pea eg rr vie +3" footie a See ee ee See Se I Mall TO ONE OF THE SENATORS FROM YOUR STATE OR TO THE CONGRESSMAN FROM YOUR DISTRICT NOTE: You may paste « blank sheat here for ediisional vigwatares,