How is it possible the Dems can't go to town with this sort of vile rubbish!
Gary
Message: 4 Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:40:26 -0400 From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: [lbo-talk] Bob Bork worries about moral chaos To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Message-ID: <p06210201bef03e28d811@[192.168.1.100]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"
Wall Street Journal - July 5, 2005
Their Will Be Done By ROBERT H. BORK
What do the nomination of a replacement for Sandra Day O'Connor, constitutional law, and moral chaos have to do with one another? A good deal more than you may think.
In Federalist 2, John Jay wrote of America that "Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people -- a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs . . . ." Such a people enjoy the same moral assumptions, the cement that forms a society rather than a cluster of groups. Though Jay's conditions have long been obsolete, until recently Americans did possess a large body of common moral assumptions rooted in our original Anglo-Protestant culture, and expressed in law. Now, however, a variety of disintegrating influences are undermining that unanimity, not least among them is the capture of constitutional law by an extreme liberationist philosophy. America is becoming a cacophony of voices proclaiming different, or no, truths.
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