The Supreme Court and Measuring Ignorance

Hold onto your hat as you read these poll results from Rasmussen:

As the Supreme Court begins a new term, 44% of Americans would counsel the justices to base their decisions “strictly upon what is written in the Constitution and legal precedents.” A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 38% say the Court’s decisions should be primarily guided by a sense of fairness and justice rather than strict constructionism.

So only 44% of Americans think the U.S. Supreme Court should base it's decisions on law? That means 56% of Americans think the most important legal decisions in our country should be made based on something other than the law!

I wondered if they've considered the fact that laws (which are proposed and debated by legislative bodies made up of dozens of people, and are approved by majorities of those bodies, and are signed into law by an executive authority) are a little more vetted than the "sense of fairness and justice" of nine people?

The Bible says, "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure." Do we really want to base our freedom and safety on it, rather than the solid bedrock of law?