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Here's the last two paragraphs, which unfortunately you're
Posted on: July 4, 2020 at 09:17:08 CT
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falling right into this morning:
And it's this final piece of information that is the key to the puzzle. So long as the public tolerates it, it will be done. Words on parchment are useless in opposing this. The beliefs of the people who wrote the Bill of Rights — that is, a group of laissez-faire liberals from the late eighteenth century — mean nothing if the public doesn't agree with them. And virtually no American today agrees with the anti-federalists of old that the federal government must be kept limited, weakened, and confined to a small number of tasks. If no one agrees with the philosophy behind the Bill of Rights, few will care if its provisions are violated.
The only way forward at this point to to rebuild this philosophy — a philosophy we call liberalism or "classical" liberalism — from the ground up. This requires scholarship, activism, teaching, writing, debate — and time. Demanding obedience to a long-disregarded document does nothing. For far too long, the party of laissez faire and liberalism thought some documents from 200 years ago would protect them from a government run amok. They were wrong.
And it's this final piece of information that is the key to the puzzle. So long as the public tolerates it, it will be done. Words on parchment are useless in opposing this. The beliefs of the people who wrote the Bill of Rights — that is, a group of laissez-faire liberals from the late eighteenth century — mean nothing if the public doesn't agree with them. And virtually no American today agrees with the anti-federalists of old that the federal government must be kept limited, weakened, and confined to a small number of tasks. If no one agrees with the philosophy behind the Bill of Rights, few will care if its provisions are violated.
The only way forward at this point to to rebuild this philosophy — a philosophy we call liberalism or "classical" liberalism — from the ground up. This requires scholarship, activism, teaching, writing, debate — and time. Demanding obedience to a long-disregarded document does nothing. For far too long, the party of laissez faire and liberalism thought some documents from 200 years ago would protect them from a government run amok. They were wrong.
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Here's the last two paragraphs, which unfortunately you're - ummmm MU - 7/4 09:17:08