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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Janice Shell who wrote (12842)	4/4/1998 10:16:00 AM
From: Thomas G. Busillo	Respond to of 20981

Janice, oh no, quite the contrary. Ginsberg's actually a groundbreaking political theorist. Don't give me law. Don't give me facts. How about the will of the American people? Clearly Ginsberg is making an appeal based on Rosseau's theory of the General Will that would allow the "rule of law" (probably a little to Edmund Burke-ish for his "tastes") to be suspended in favor of poll numbers taken before law enforcement officials have been given the chance to present evidence. Granted, the "will" of the American people probably changes radically when you change the questions asked in these types of polls. Example: Should the President's sex life be investigated? as opposed to Should allegations that the President of the United States obstructed justice be investigated? But that just means we need to do a poll to figure out the questions on the poll that's going to be used supercede our nation's notion of "justice for ALL under the rule of law". I'm sure Harvard, Princeton, and Johns Hopkins will be fighting over who gets to have him teach public policy when this is all said and done <g> Good trading, Tom