In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
Robert BorkRead
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In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions
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