>There is one piece of law that grassroots organizing and electoral
>politics as usual could never have gotten us: the Bill of Rights.
But, as Dan Lazare likes to argue, we rely on the BoR and the rest of the Constitution to protect us, serving as a replacement for politics. Thus the incredible melodramas over court nominations, since the SC is the official arbiter of the constitution. Dan argues that this is central to the depoliticization of American life <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#050908>.
Doug