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All Falling Faiths

Reflections on the Promise and Failure of the 1960s

By: J. Harvie Wilkinson III

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All Falling Faiths

Reflections on the Promise and Failure of the 1960s

By: J. Harvie Wilkinson III

In this warm and intimate memoir Judge Wilkinson delivers a chilling message. The 1960s inflicted enormous damage on our country; even at this very hour we see the decade’s imprint in so much of what we say and do. The chapters reveal the harm done to the true meaning of education, to our capacity for lasting personal commitments, to our respect for the rule of law, to our sense of rootedness and home, to our desire for service, to our capacity for national unity, and to our need for the sustenance of faith. Judge Wilkinson seeks not to lecture but to share, in the most personal sense, what life was like in the 1960s and to describe the influence of those frighteningly eventful years upon the present day. Judge Wilkinson acknowledges the good things accomplished by the Sixties and nourishes the belief that from that decade we can learn ways to build a better future. But he asks his own generation to recognize its youthful mistakes and pleads with future generations not to repeat them. The author’s voice is one of love and hope for America. Our national prospects depend on facing honestly the full magnitude of all we lost during one momentous decade and of all we must now recover.

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Encounter Books

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1641770376

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Cosmic Constitutional Theory

Why Americans are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-governance

By: J. Harvie Wilkinson (III)

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Cosmic Constitutional Theory

Why Americans are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-governance

By: J. Harvie Wilkinson (III)

What underlies this development? Federal Appeals Court Judge and noted author J. Harvie Wilkinson argues that America's most brilliant legal minds have launched a set of cosmic constitutional theories that, for all their value, are undermining self-governance.

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0190260041

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Cosmic Constitutional Theory

Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance

By: J. Harvie Wilkinson III

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Cosmic Constitutional Theory

Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance

By: J. Harvie Wilkinson III

American constitutional law has undergone a transformation. Issues once left to the people have increasingly become the province of the courts. Subjects as diverse as abortion rights and firearms regulations, health care reform and counterterrorism efforts, not to mention a millennial presidential election, are more and more the domain of judges. What sparked this development? In this engaging volume, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson argues that America's most brilliant legal minds have launched a set of cosmic constitutional theories that, for all their value, are undermining self-governance. Thinkers as diverse as Justices William Brennan and Antonin Scalia, Professor John Hart Ely, Judges Robert Bork and Richard Posner, have all produced seminal interpretations of our Founding document, but ones that promise to imbue courts with unprecedented powers. While crediting the theorists for the sparkling quality of their thoughts, Judge Wilkinson argues they will slowly erode the role of representative institutions in America and leave our children bereft of democratic liberty. The loser in all the theoretical fireworks is the old and honorable tradition of judicial restraint. The judicial modesty once practiced by Learned Hand, John Harlan, and Oliver Wendell Holmes has given way to competing schools of liberal and conservative activism seeking sanctuary in Living Constitutionalism, Originalism, Process Theory, or the supposedly anti-theoretical creed of Pragmatism. Each of these seemingly disparate theories promises their followers an intellectually respectable route to congenial political outcomes from the bench. Judge Wilkinson calls for a plainer, simpler, self-disciplined commitment to judicial restraint and democratic governance, a course that alas may be impossible so long as the cosmic constitutionalists so dominate contemporary legal thought.

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Oxford University Press

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0199930074

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All Falling Faiths

All Falling Faiths

Cosmic Constitutional Theory

Cosmic Constitutional Theory

Cosmic Constitutional Theory

Cosmic Constitutional Theory

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