1. Just as the adage goes, "for Liberals, feeling often passes for knowing," so, too, do good intentions surpass results or methodology.....in any and every endeavor.
This view explains why slavery and oppression by communism, socialism, and even fascism (if instituted by Liberals/Progressives), are met with a shrug by Liberals and Progressives.
Although the Constitution, the greatest memorialization of mankind's ability to govern itself, is nominally known as 'the law of the land,' Leftists have no intention of honoring it as such.
Instead, they kill it with the prefix 'living.'
2. Until Franklin Roosevelt, America functioned via the Constitution, and the Founder's guidance. During Roosevelt's term, that changed. It's most clearly seen is comparison with the man who had the second greatest number of vetoes....Grover Cleveland. Cleveland refused to allow expenditures on endeavors not authorized under the enumerated powers....including charity.
a. “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will for the most part be connected.
The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people; and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.”
James Madison, Federalist #45, January 26, 1788
If only.
The control exercised by Liberals has altered 'justice' to some rationalization that they call 'social justice.'
3. The meaning of the United States Constitution is “fixed by the original meaning of its words,” according to the authors of a highly engaging new book titled, simply,The Constitution: An Introduction. [ by Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen]....
a. ... music to the ears of originalists like Justice Antonin Scalia—underlies the book’s central theme: defending the Constitution’s text against those politicians and judges who “seek to rewrite [its] terms in the service of what are thought to be desirable policies.” [Good intentions above all!]
4. .... —the book does an excellent job of placing legal controversies in historical context.... critiquing the modern era of judicial activism. .... the Warren Court (1953–69) produced “careless” decisions, because the justices were focused on achieving policy goals rather than upholding the law.
[Upholding the law: secondary for Liberals]
a. The nadir of this results-oriented jurisprudence was, ... the Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v.Wade, which invented a federal right to abortion on demand. The authors assail Roe as “the most extreme example of judicial activism in the twentieth century.”
b. They even compare the decision—unfavorably—toDred Scott, the notorious pro-slavery decision that helped provoke the Civil War. “Not evenDred Scott,” they argue, “so completely seemed to disregard the text asRoedid.”
Against Judicial Activism by Adam Freedman City Journal June 16 2015
Who could argue that everything the authors claim is less than true an accurate?
This view explains why slavery and oppression by communism, socialism, and even fascism (if instituted by Liberals/Progressives), are met with a shrug by Liberals and Progressives.
Although the Constitution, the greatest memorialization of mankind's ability to govern itself, is nominally known as 'the law of the land,' Leftists have no intention of honoring it as such.
Instead, they kill it with the prefix 'living.'
2. Until Franklin Roosevelt, America functioned via the Constitution, and the Founder's guidance. During Roosevelt's term, that changed. It's most clearly seen is comparison with the man who had the second greatest number of vetoes....Grover Cleveland. Cleveland refused to allow expenditures on endeavors not authorized under the enumerated powers....including charity.
a. “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will for the most part be connected.
The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people; and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.”
James Madison, Federalist #45, January 26, 1788
If only.
The control exercised by Liberals has altered 'justice' to some rationalization that they call 'social justice.'
3. The meaning of the United States Constitution is “fixed by the original meaning of its words,” according to the authors of a highly engaging new book titled, simply,The Constitution: An Introduction. [ by Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen]....
a. ... music to the ears of originalists like Justice Antonin Scalia—underlies the book’s central theme: defending the Constitution’s text against those politicians and judges who “seek to rewrite [its] terms in the service of what are thought to be desirable policies.” [Good intentions above all!]
4. .... —the book does an excellent job of placing legal controversies in historical context.... critiquing the modern era of judicial activism. .... the Warren Court (1953–69) produced “careless” decisions, because the justices were focused on achieving policy goals rather than upholding the law.
[Upholding the law: secondary for Liberals]
a. The nadir of this results-oriented jurisprudence was, ... the Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v.Wade, which invented a federal right to abortion on demand. The authors assail Roe as “the most extreme example of judicial activism in the twentieth century.”
b. They even compare the decision—unfavorably—toDred Scott, the notorious pro-slavery decision that helped provoke the Civil War. “Not evenDred Scott,” they argue, “so completely seemed to disregard the text asRoedid.”
Against Judicial Activism by Adam Freedman City Journal June 16 2015
Who could argue that everything the authors claim is less than true an accurate?
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