Authority a la Carte

More food for the thought from Imperium Press.

Whereas a command can simply be followed, an end must forever be interpreted—it’s a legal realist boot stomping on the law forever. “Ends” are exactly how we can drum up gay marriage from the American constitution: we judge not by the letter of the law, not by what the framers actually wrote, but by their supposed “intentions”, which are invariably our intentions. The constitution can’t simply be followed, it must forever be recast, remade, reinterpreted, it must be a ‘living document’, which is just to say, it must be thrown out. Judging ends and intentions is smuggling in our own, often unwittingly. This is the historical rule, and we can tell because in practice teleology has been followed by rampant atheism and/or the collapse of the social order, both anciently and in the modern world. This is the same process we described in our article Liberalism, Then and Now: an idea moving to its logical conclusion, becoming ever more internally consistent.

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X-BEAST
X-BEAST
1 year ago

This whole thing can be boiled down into 3 words. WE ARE SCREWED!!!

Splish_Splash
Splish_Splash
1 year ago
Reply to  X-BEAST

AMEN!

Al Bino
Al Bino
1 year ago

The privately run BAR, aka judiciary, insist We the People capitulated authority to them, claiming SCOTUS is the prime authority on interpreting the US Constitution.
For which, the US Constitution grants no authority.

Phil
Phil
1 year ago
Reply to  Al Bino

you are right and the founders didn’t think very highly of them in those days and that’s why they left them in the basement to hold court and not the building they are in today, it was all manipulation from the democrats to erect them a high and lofty court building with a prideful sense of them being high and righteous so they could manipulate them as they do in our time. all pre-planned by the demons who run that anti-Christ party.

Last edited 1 year ago by Phil