You point to a central conundrum for conservatives. The Constitution which we demand the state adhere to clearly prescribes a policy of laissez-faire in matters described in the article, yet monsters are the ones taking advantage of this freedom. There is no fix for this, legislatively or otherwise. The Founders understood that freedom will only really exist if the people have a sense of self-government, a concept utterly alien to modern America. There is no outside corrective for the little monster embryonic lawyers Yale is hatching. The spirit of liberty has been abolished from their souls.
My point exactly. Thank you!
Our job as constitutional conservatives is to insist on an objective standard according to the Constitution so that when the left tries to turn that standard against us we have a defensible position.
You are quite right that our laissez-faire or libertarian instincts often leave us vulnerable but to abandon them is to cede the ground to the left.
