Yes, actually, more than one style, depending on who you ask and
which lies you pick.
This fellow defends libertarian lies.
Richard Epstein has
published a massive scholarly tome laying out the case for enforcing the
Constitution in a way that recognizes its foundation in the principles of
individual rights and limited government.
But that’s not obedience, either.
Today’s libertarian reading rests on such absurdities as the
substantive due process of the Lochner era and the CATO reading of the
privileges or immunities clause of the 14th Amendment as imposing
relevant portions of the Bill of Rights and constitutional protections on the
states.
It's not fidelity to the constitution and it's not honest constitutionalism.
And it forgets such signal historical facts as that the states reserved to themselves powers no one intended to deny them, subject to whatever restrictions might exist in their own constitutions, such as the power to establish religion.
And that barely scratches the surface.
It's not fidelity to the constitution and it's not honest constitutionalism.
And it forgets such signal historical facts as that the states reserved to themselves powers no one intended to deny them, subject to whatever restrictions might exist in their own constitutions, such as the power to establish religion.
And that barely scratches the surface.
Everyone lies, right and left.
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