Doesn’t such a system have a fatal flaw?—the judge.
This person or persons hold the power to both interpret the laws and to misinterpret those laws.
John Marshall, many would argue, opened this Pandora’s box with Marbury v. Madison.
Ultimately, judges become corruptible and the result is the Conservation Movement (and Eugenics) and the New Deal and the Great Society and Government Schools and ….
Our lawmakers are now our rule makers.
PS—I have been reading too much Lysander Spooner so maybe I have become another grumpy old man who just wants to be left alone.
I'd like someone who knows The Enlightenment well to read the "James" the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by author Percival Everett. I've only read a review but I suspect that the lead character is unlikely to have read John Locke...does the author just assume that everyone is born knowing what is "right."
Please put the fact that your essay can be listened to at the beginning, not at the end...where it will be seen after reading all of it.
I’m eager to read your entire essay. I hope you have recovered fully.
I haven't fully recovered, but I'm getting there. Thanks for the good thoughts.
“freedom plus a constable and a judge”
Doesn’t such a system have a fatal flaw?—the judge.
This person or persons hold the power to both interpret the laws and to misinterpret those laws.
John Marshall, many would argue, opened this Pandora’s box with Marbury v. Madison.
Ultimately, judges become corruptible and the result is the Conservation Movement (and Eugenics) and the New Deal and the Great Society and Government Schools and ….
Our lawmakers are now our rule makers.
PS—I have been reading too much Lysander Spooner so maybe I have become another grumpy old man who just wants to be left alone.
That was delicious. I am waiting with great anticipation to see where this will lead. I have my suspicions.
I'd like someone who knows The Enlightenment well to read the "James" the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by author Percival Everett. I've only read a review but I suspect that the lead character is unlikely to have read John Locke...does the author just assume that everyone is born knowing what is "right."
Was Smith educated in the trivium? That might explain his grammar metaphor.