Plato's Republic

[dave dorkin]

I'm not sure that's exactly what happens. I'm not
certain that the rule of law means much, much more
than convention where those who hold to the convention
have a powerful enough voice in the way of numbers,
institutions, money and power more generally put to
make it seem as if all we did was work out out hard
cases, in the absence of agreement on first principles
and as well as principles of interpretation.

In other words, many more cases are "hard" than it
seems at first glance (especially in one place at one
moment in time). Now if you push hard on this, I think
we are back to the Chomsky/Foucault debate here. that
said, I believe in the Law  at least in public :)


> Eric and Dave, sure, there complications, debates
> about what's fundamental, 
> hard cases and different ways to decide them. Often
> particular cases will be 
> quite difficult. That doesn't mean the principle of
> the thing is hard. It's 
> not, and you agree with it, so why are you arguing?
> 
> jks

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