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Re: liberals support civil liberties?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin THEOBALD)
Tue Sep 27 09:48:06 1994
From: theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 09:46:45 -0400
In-Reply-To: castillo@media.mit.edu's message [Re: liberals support civil liberties?] as of Sep 27, 0:30
To: castillo@media.mit.edu, libertarians@MIT.EDU
In your message [Re: liberals support civil liberties?]
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| >>The purpose was to show that the simple model "liberals are
| >>for civil liberties, conservatives are for economic freedom" doesn't
| >>always hold. One could also give a list of economic restrictions favored
| >>by conservatives.
| >
| >Well said. The temptation recently though, seems to be to forgive
| >conservatives a bit more for their "transgressions" than liberals.
| >
| >Vernon
|
| One thing to keep in mind is that the right wing excesses of conservatives
| have many more judicial (esp. Supreme Court) impediments than the left
| wing excesses of liberals. On many issues (school prayer, abortion,
| flag burning, etc.) the courts have consistently upheld limitations on
| government intrusion into our lives. To date there has never been a
| court ruling that eliminated any bureaucratic regulation, tax rate or
| entitlement program...no matter how oppressive the burden.
Not quite. Wasn't there a supreme court case a few years ago where they
ruled that some California land-use regulation amounted to a violation of
the "takings" clause?
In general, though, you are correct. That, however, could be a product
of the left-leaning nature of the court, which has now changed.
Kevin Theobald
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