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To: KLP who wrote (326019)9/29/2009 12:40:22 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Respond to of 793707
 
The Undoing of American Constitutionalism
How a political revolution begun more than a century ago led to Sonia Sotomayor.

By Richard M. Reinsch

Those who were desperately confused, if not enraged, by candidate Barack Obama’s contention that the ideal federal judge should fashion his opinion in empathy with the more downtrodden and oppressed party in a case should consult Bradley Watson’s Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence to understand how the man who has become president could assert the primacy of personal opinion over law. Watson’s book daringly asks what social Darwinism and pragmatism have to do with ...

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