“Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute because their role is to protect our liberty. By using the absolute power of freedom to accomplish reforms of democracy, we have undermined democracy and diminished our freedom.” LanguageLibertyRolesDemocracyRightsProtectAbsolutesAccomplishCompromiseReformAbsolute Power Book:The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America Source: The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America
“Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.” GivingLightSpiritLibertyRolesWrittenGenerationsRevolutionOffersAccountsHistoricalComplicatedBritishRisingEmpiresHistorianDedicatedFinestExileAmerican RevolutionStunningBritish EmpireRevisionAftermathLoyalistsReinterpretation Author:Sean Wilentz
“To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should strike down legislation only when a clear constitutional violation exists. When judicial activists resort to various inventions and theories to impose their personal views on privacy and liberty, they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judiciary as an institution and undermine the role of the other branches of government.” ShouldGovernmentViewsLibertyRolesClearPolicyTheoryInstitutionsCourtVariousRefuseStrikesSupremeInventionBeing TrueBranchesPrivacyActivistLegislationSupreme CourtResortsViolationJudicialPublic PolicyJudiciaryLegitimacyJeopardizeBranches Of GovernmentPersonal Views Author:Mark Levin
“I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind of Kantian-Marxist trajectory - with a French twist on the centrality of liberty, equality and fraternity (cf. Politics of Friendship). Not to mention the role of Levinas and, behind Levinas, Judaism's twinning of eschatology and the call for justice.” KindInterestJusticeBehindsLibertyRolesPostsNot SureRootedJudaismTwistsTheologicalMarxistFraternityTrajectoryCfsEschatologyDerridaStructuralism Author:George Pattison