"So successful have the Progressives been that hardly anyone in either party batted a law-abiding eye at the constitutionally shocking financial bailouts and rewriting of the bankruptcy law in just the past few years. The very idea of the rule of law disappears in the shadow of the living constitution. This is why supporters of the President’s health care plan have reacted with stunned incredulity when asked where in the Constitution is the authority to enact such a plan. This is also why it is a substantial—though very incomplete—political victory just to raise that question. The great debate is between defenders of the Constitution and advocates of the living constitution, which renders the Constitution meaningless. The question of the size and role of government will be decided by the more fundamental debate."
[Letters From An Ohio Farmer]
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