More. Charles Kesler, The Claremont Institute, "The Tea Party Spirit":
More. Why Vote? Just ‘Deem’But it isn't the "reform" part of the Democrats' health care bill (if they ever agree on one) that strikes me as most perverse. It's calling this voluminous monstrosity a bill. Can you have a bill, a single law, that is almost 3,000 pages long? In the old days, that would have constituted a whole code of laws. When our founders thought about law, they often thought along the lines of John Locke, who described law as a community's "settled standing rules, indifferent, and the same to all parties," emphasizing that to be legitimate a statute must be "received and allowed by common consent to be the standard of right and wrong, and the common measure to decide all controversies" between citizens.
This phonebook-sized law that would control a sixth of the U.S. economy cannot be a law by that definition. [snip]Faster than one might think, a government of equal laws turns into a regime of arbitrary privileges.
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