Liberals have traditionally avoided legislation and the consent of the governed to bring about social change, and have focused on ''judicial fiat'' law to impose a [[cultural Marxist]] agenda, abortion and [[same-sex "marriage"]] being only two of dozens of obvious examples. Liberal judges, under a belief in a "[[Living Constitution]]", feel that they can by-pass elected legislators and "legislate from the bench" or write law themselves.
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Liberals have traditionally avoided legislation and the consent of the governed to bring about social change, and have focused on ''judicial fiat'' law to impose a [[cultural Marxist]] agenda, [[abortion]] and [[same-sex "marriage"]] being only two of dozens of obvious examples. Liberal judges, under a belief in a "[[Living Constitution]]", feel that they can by-pass elected legislators and "legislate from the bench" or write law themselves.
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In 2014 for example, a federal judge in California overturned a citizen's referendum which passed overwhelming to amend the state constitution to ban same sex marriage; California [[Attorney General]] [[Kamala Harris]] refused to defend the lower court ruling in Appeals Court, "legalizing gay marriage in California ''against '' the will of the voters and without action by the legislature.