“The world is not going to be saved by legislation,” William Howard Taft said. An interesting discussion by Salt Lake’s LaVarr Webb and Frank Pignanelli on who legislators listen to: constituents or lobbyists. (h/t Deseret News)
Can legislation save the world?
February 14, 2011 by Daniel Burton
Filed Under: Utah Legislature Tagged With: legislators, legislatures, Utah, Utah State Legislature, William Howard Taft
A word on originalism, courts and legislatures
June 24, 2010 by Daniel Burton
The Constitution, though it has an effect superior to other laws, is in its nature the sort of “law” that is the business of the courts…
Filed Under: Constitutional Law, SCOTUS Tagged With: congress, constitution, courts, England, Justice Scalia, lawyers, legal training, legislatures, originalism, reading the law, Scalia, social values
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