(paraphrased) The anointed make categorical decisions - leading to proliferation of 'rights'. Opposite of that is incremental trade-offs.
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(paraphrased) Political,legal institutions tend towards categorical decisions while families and markets tend towards incremental trade-offs
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"Altho' science is capable of linear advancement, same is not true of law where the same insights & mistakes tend to recur again & again" RE
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"If the principle of free-wheeling judicial law making becomes established...the fundamental concept of law itself is undermined...." /1
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"....along with the willingness of the people to be bound by the arbitrary dictates of judges" 2/2
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"Intellectuals' idea of law is about making it harder or easier for 1 segment of society to win lawsuits agnst another segment"(paraphrased)
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"Chief Justice John Marshall: The power to tax is the power to destroy. The power of arbitrary regulation is the power to extort"
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"Bad ages to live through are good ages to learn from" - Eugen Weber
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"In a democracy, if enough people believe that a war is unwinnable, that can make it unwinnable"
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Replying to @pranasutra
Sir, not to interrupt, but would humbly request you to read this, even if it contains some jargon.https://imperialenergyblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/12/interview-with-reactionary-future-part-1/ …
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It is a complete re-working of our common understanding of modern history and political science.
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