1. Legal scholar Dershowitz wrote about the connection in "The Genesis of Justice." The Constitution is largely based on the Bible.
2. The importance of God and His specific instructions is that without same everything else is simply an opinion.
Why? Because there is no force behind reason.
Take as an example, a sadist who gets satisfaction from murdering children. If there is no God who declares that such an act is wrong, then my arguing such is simply my opinion versus that of the murderer. Without God, good and evil are a matter of taste.
3. I can extend that view to law, to the necessity of the Constitution and the specifics therein.
Textualism is a mode of legal interpretation that focuses on the plain meaning of the text of a legal document. Textualism usually emphasizes how the terms in the Constitution would be understood by people at the time they were ratified, as well as the context in which those terms appear.
-See Hon. Antonin Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law 23–38 (Amy Gutmann ed., 1997) [hereinafter Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation].
4. When Progressives took control of the law school, they made judges OPINIONS equal to the text of the Constituiton....it's called case law, or precedent.
5. Just saw this today: the Supremes invalidated a lower court decision because it went beyond the text of the law!
"The Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision today that the lower court must reconsider the reverse-discrimination case of an Ohio woman who claims she was fired because she is straight.
....she was required to show “background circumstances” to support her allegations of reverse discrimination.
The majority opinion explained that "the standard for proving disparate treatment under Title VII does not vary based on whether or not the plaintiff is a member of a majority group." Moreover, "the 'background circumstances' rule—which subjects all majority-group plaintiffs to the same, highly specific evidentiary standard in every case—ignores the Court’s instruction to avoid inflexible applications of the prima facie standard."
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2. The importance of God and His specific instructions is that without same everything else is simply an opinion.
Why? Because there is no force behind reason.
Take as an example, a sadist who gets satisfaction from murdering children. If there is no God who declares that such an act is wrong, then my arguing such is simply my opinion versus that of the murderer. Without God, good and evil are a matter of taste.
3. I can extend that view to law, to the necessity of the Constitution and the specifics therein.
Textualism is a mode of legal interpretation that focuses on the plain meaning of the text of a legal document. Textualism usually emphasizes how the terms in the Constitution would be understood by people at the time they were ratified, as well as the context in which those terms appear.
-See Hon. Antonin Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law 23–38 (Amy Gutmann ed., 1997) [hereinafter Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation].
4. When Progressives took control of the law school, they made judges OPINIONS equal to the text of the Constituiton....it's called case law, or precedent.
5. Just saw this today: the Supremes invalidated a lower court decision because it went beyond the text of the law!
"The Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision today that the lower court must reconsider the reverse-discrimination case of an Ohio woman who claims she was fired because she is straight.
....she was required to show “background circumstances” to support her allegations of reverse discrimination.
The majority opinion explained that "the standard for proving disparate treatment under Title VII does not vary based on whether or not the plaintiff is a member of a majority group." Moreover, "the 'background circumstances' rule—which subjects all majority-group plaintiffs to the same, highly specific evidentiary standard in every case—ignores the Court’s instruction to avoid inflexible applications of the prima facie standard."
PJ Media
Wow!
