[lbo-talk] RE: Bob Bork worries about moral chaos

Gary Mongiovi MONGIOVG at stjohns.edu
Tue Jul 5 08:23:13 PDT 2005


Well, you've got to admit it was helptul of him to put his racist and authoritarian premises on the table in the first few lines.

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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