Until the 1960’s, we had a single book about three inches thick titled Vermont Statutes. Today, Karen has three bookshelves titled Vermont Statutes Annotated. The annotations are not law, but are merely the gist of court decisions. That is completely wrong because the courts do not make law in either the federal or the state government constitutional plans.

Indeed, it is taught in law school that such so called case law is not law, but merely may be persuasive. Yet, lawyers constantly cite such cases in their pleadings as if they were law. Worse yet, judges blithely accept such citations as law. Karen will work hard to end that perversion of our constitutional plan of government. This one issue is at the core of so many of the problems in Vermont and in the nation.

Making law is strictly confined to the legislative branch of government with the approval of the executive branch and we need to restore that plan to solve the many problems that have grown from this perversion.