Re: [asa] dawkins and unbelief (again)

*@ Derrida is the darling of those who want to fool some useful idiots into
believing that the Constitution is a "living document". *

I don't think the Warren Court was much into poststructualism. To the
contrary, the legal realists and instrumentalists who displaced turn of the
century formalism in statutory and constitutional interpretation were
rationalists and libertarians who were heavily influenced by Dewey and his
ilk. It is actually pretty difficult, if not impossible, to hold to
constitutional formalism and libertarian pragmatism at the same time.

On 4/2/07, Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> At 05:30 PM 4/2/2007, David Opderbeck wrote:
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> As the trajectory from Dawkins to Campolo to Robert Mugabe, that perhaps
> is itself a bit of postmodern textual criticism, but I don't think even
> Derrida could have come up with that one.
>
>
>
> *@ *Derrida is the darling of those who want to fool some useful idiots
> into believing that the Constitution is a "living document".
>
> I can name names there, too, and do that "trajectory" for you if you like.
> :)
>
> ~ Janice
>
>
>

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Received on Mon Apr 2 18:53:49 2007