Five For Theft
Writing in the Washington Post (requires simple registration) today, George Will argued against the “Damaging Deference” the Court showed to elected political bodies. It offered a strong critique of the judicial philosophy associated with Judge Robert Bork and concluded that,
Conservatives should be reminded to be careful what they wish for. Their often-reflexive rhetoric praises “judicial restraint” and deference to — it sometimes seems — almost unleashable powers of the elected branches of governments. However, in the debate about the proper role of the judiciary in American democracy, conservatives who dogmatically preach a populist creed of deference to majoritarianism will thereby abandon, or at least radically restrict, the judiciary’s indispensable role in limiting government.
“Is coherency really such an important concept when we’re talking about how best to guarantee liberty?”
It’s crucial in making sense of anything.
Is it really? Well, according to you, limited government is incoherent (although I’m not sure how), and yet it has survived in the U.S. for 210+ years. So either you’re wrong, or we can’t make any sense of this 200-year-long exercise in limited government.
Hasn’t the US government murdered more than two million people?