Posted on 12/10/2022 12:29:16 PM PST by TexasKamaAina
At the center of this debate was Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule, whose latest book served as the ostensible subject of the symposium. In conservative legal circles, Vermeule has become the most prominent proponent of “common good constitutionalism,” a controversial new theory that challenges many of the fundamental premises and principles of the conservative legal movement. The cornerstone of Vermeule’s theory is the claim that “the central aim of the constitutional order is to promote good rule, not to ‘protect liberty’ as an end in itself” — or, in layman’s terms, that the Constitution empowers the government to pursue conservative political ends, even when those ends conflict with individual rights as most Americans understand them.
Mark Levin talked about it on his show Friday. I didn’t get to hear all of it. He was very critical of it. I hope he will cover it more Monday. We need to have an answer to bad ideas that show up on what is supposedly our side. The left has no guardrails, so there is no barrier against bad ideas. We can’t afford to do the same.
I believe this article could be rewritten from a liberal point of view. A lot depends on the definition of “common good constitutionalism”, on the definition of “common good”.
The left could argue that same sex marriage, abortion on demand, and open borders are in the interest of the common good.
If the right implements this idea, the left will take it over and ruin with it. (That wasn’t a typo.)
HEAR HEAR!
If conservatism goes that route it loses me.
“There is nothing ‘conservative’ about a constitutional theory where the collective is more important than individual liberty. Nothing.... pure trash.”
It’s worse than that. When they start using terms like “for the common good” the government will see it as a green light for ever more tyranny.
Absolutely agree
This is just another way to get people on board to accept rulers
No thanks
“Its basically conservative ‘living constitutionalism’ I guess.”
That is EXACTLY what it is.
Libs have a lot of nerve/gall/chutzpah calling anything authoritarian.
Commies.
Sounds good, but I’m an advocate of straight-up open Theocracy myself.
yes previous and current theocracies are heaven on earth
The only true Theocracy that has ever existed in history was ancient Israel/Judah.
What did you expect the Messianic era to be--secular humanist?
A legal thoery claiming to be “conservative” on some notion of the “common good” as a higher foundational principle than Liberty, is not Conservative, because by whose definition is the “common good” if in fact the most common good is NOT Liberty.
All under the "dumbrella" of libertarian.
And I loathe to see them on FR.
No, thanks.
pretty sure President Reagan wasn’t in favor of any of those things.
“Nothing.... pure trash.”
Those opposed to Originalism are enemies of liberty and the American people.
You keep posting that lie, that one little quote taken out of context of a speech Reagan was giving to libertarians.
It was an audience warm-up and then trying to move them to conservatism, a move you seem to disagree with him on.
That’s no joke. This was a reliably red county until COVID hysteria. Terribly sad.
And terrifying. I can’t get out of Illinois fast enough.
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