rule of law
Yep, the Tea Party is in many respects echoes Jacksonianism. And I certainly don't mean that as a compliment.
Michael Lind asks if anyone in America believes in the rule of law? It's a good question, but his response to it reveals it's a much tougher one to answer.
Since this post has occasioned much unhappiness, I'd like to respond to a few points.(1) The primary defense for open-ended judicial review that deploys vague constitutional generalities (equal protection, substantive due process etc) appears to be that we've always done things this way and what...
This is a good quote from Letter From a Birmingham Jail. My favorite:Let us consider a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code.