No clause on public opinion

To the editor:

In response to Will Richardson's letter: Neither Thomas Jefferson nor James Madison put any clause in the Constitution that referred to public opinion or to what medical doctors' opinions were.

There are three separate but equal branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial. Judges are appointed for life to keep politics out of their decisions. The legislative branch set up the judicial branch with specific checks and balances. Article 3 of the Constitution allows the impeachment of out-of-control judges.

The law Congress passed regarding the Terry Schiavo case required a federal judge to review all of the old evidence along with all of the new evidence from the last 15 years. Amazingly, the judge did it in 1 1/2 hours.

As for Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the rest, keep it up. America is listening.

WILLIAM TWAIN, Jackson