I was pleased to read this, so pleased I just became a paid subscriber. I have long realized the threat a prosperous and large middle class poses to the plutocrats. It has been as obvious to me as the noses on our faces. I suggest, if you have not read it, "Beyond Originalism," by Adrian Vermeule (constitutional scholar at Harvard Law…
I was pleased to read this, so pleased I just became a paid subscriber. I have long realized the threat a prosperous and large middle class poses to the plutocrats. It has been as obvious to me as the noses on our faces. I suggest, if you have not read it, "Beyond Originalism," by Adrian Vermeule (constitutional scholar at Harvard Law School) who openly advocates a version of this, arguing the position that the plutocrats know what is best for us. He ends the article with: "Originalism has done useful work, and can now give way to a new confidence in authoritative rule for the common good" Apparently he has expanded his thinking in a book entitled "Common Good Constitutionalism." It seems, according to Vermeule, we should all relinquish our feeble attempts at self-determinism and accept the rule of our "betters." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/common-good-constitutionalism/609037/ I have added the link to the Atlantic article.
I was pleased to read this, so pleased I just became a paid subscriber. I have long realized the threat a prosperous and large middle class poses to the plutocrats. It has been as obvious to me as the noses on our faces. I suggest, if you have not read it, "Beyond Originalism," by Adrian Vermeule (constitutional scholar at Harvard Law School) who openly advocates a version of this, arguing the position that the plutocrats know what is best for us. He ends the article with: "Originalism has done useful work, and can now give way to a new confidence in authoritative rule for the common good" Apparently he has expanded his thinking in a book entitled "Common Good Constitutionalism." It seems, according to Vermeule, we should all relinquish our feeble attempts at self-determinism and accept the rule of our "betters." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/common-good-constitutionalism/609037/ I have added the link to the Atlantic article.