Seems to me that the civil rights movement expressly rejected this proposition and relied on an anti-democratic institution (the Supreme Court) to override the will of the people in the name or moral rightness.
Do you reject that approach? Or reject the calim that the Court is anti-democratic?
--- Justin Schwartz <jkschw at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >How you arrive at a conception of rights plays a
> large role in where that
> >conception takes you. In part, this explains the
> pronounced absence of
> >Lockean socialists.
> >
>
> Actually I think most Americans socialists are
> Lockeans. Be that as it may,
> no matter how you arrive your conception of rights,
> and wherever it may take
> you, other peoiple don't have to agree with your
> metaphysics, theology,
> religion. or even your idea of what rights there are
> so long as they and you
> will respect each other's willingnesst to
> politically decide your
> differences, including your differencesa bout
> rights, by reference to
> democratic procedures. Politics is prior to
> philosophy. This was our very
> first discussion-remember Luke? And it doesn't seem
> we've budged an inch.
> jks
>
>
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