[lbo-talk] Scalia's nuts

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Tue Oct 27 18:30:29 PDT 2009


On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, the awl was quoted:


> <http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/scalia-the-constitution-is-there-to-keep-us-from-doing-butt-stuff>


> Here's the second one. It's a little more recent. It comes from Supreme
> Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who made an appearance with fellow Justice
> Stephen Breyer in Arizona yesterday.
>
> The whole purpose of a constitution is to constrain the desires of the
> current society.

To be fair, that is kind of true. A constitutional democracy is like a constitutional monarchy: the constitution constrains what the sovereign can do. That's what it means to have a constitution.

Michael



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