Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution - Myron Magnet
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When Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from the one the framers had written–the one that had established a federal government manned by the people’s own elected representatives, charged with protecting citizens’ inborn rights while leaving them free to work out their individual happiness themselves, in their families, communities, and states. He found that his predecessors on the Court were complicit in the first step of this transformation, when in the 1870s they defanged the Civil War amendments intended to give full citizenship to his fellow black Americans. In the next generation, Woodrow Wilson, dismissing the framers and their work as obsolete, set out to replace laws made by the people’s representatives with rules made by highly educated, modern, supposedly nonpartisan “experts,” an idea Franklin Roosevelt supersized in the New Deal agencies that he acknowledged had no constitutional warrant. Then, under Chief Justice Earl Warren in the 1950s and 1960s, the Nine set about realizing Wilson’s dream of a Supreme Court sitting as a permanent constitutional convention, conjuring up laws out of smoke and mirrors and justifying them as expressions of the spirit of the age.
But Thomas, who joined the Court after eight years running one of the myriad administrative agencies that the Great Society had piled on top of FDR’s batch, had deep misgivings about the new governmental order. He shared the framers’ vision of free, self-governing citizens forging their own fate. And from his own experience growing up in segregated Savannah, flirting with and rejecting black radicalism at college, and running an agency that supposedly advanced equality, he doubted that unelected experts and justices really did understand the moral arc of the universe better than the people themselves, or that the rules and rulings they issued made lives better rather than worse. So in the hundreds of opinions he has written in more than a quarter century on the Court–the most important of them explained in these pages in clear, non-lawyerly language–he has questioned the constitutional underpinnings of the new order and tried to restore the limited, self-governing original one, as more legitimate, more just, and more free than the one that grew up in its stead. The Court now seems set to move down the trail he blazed.
A free, self-governing nation needs independent-minded, self-reliant citizens, and Thomas’s biography, vividly recounted here, produced just the kind of character that the founders assumed would always mark Americans. America’s future depends on the power of its culture and institutions to form ever more citizens of this stamp.
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This post has 11 comments with rating of 1/5
September 19th, 2023
This book could use an update.
September 20th, 2023
This is an RPG fantasy book about an ogre who inveigles his way into the grand temple and proceeds to destroy it from the inside out. His ogress wife embarks on an erotic adventure to find the key to the golden book vault to claim it as their (her?) own.
September 20th, 2023
So, “Uncle” Thomas is just trying to go back to the founders’ vision. Throw out all those changes and decisions over the last 250 years made by radical lefties and their ideas of equality, human rights, etc.
September 20th, 2023
I wonder how Gordon feels about this. Obviously pretty conflicted.
September 20th, 2023
Gweilo, What is with the “Uncle” before Mr Thomas’s first name ? ,if it is a reference to a character in the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin,you are using the wrong characters name.
September 20th, 2023
Thanks
September 20th, 2023
Clarence ‘I like your yacht’ Thomas is the absolute LAST person the founding fathers would have EVER wanted on the supreme court. This was obvious from his confirmation hearings. The founding fathers were the liberals of their day.
September 20th, 2023
Clarence Thomas is an “Uncle Tom”, no doubt about it.
The reference is correct.
September 21st, 2023
Uncle Thomas is an agent of the billionaire elite. He get’s presents and vacations when he rules against the working poor, undermines their liberties, and helps the wealthy accrue more wealth and power. I’ll raise a glass when he dies.
Oh, and fuk the ghost-writer of this screed too.
September 21st, 2023
@idenn3: see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom_syndrome
The term doesn’t refer to the original character.
Clarence fits the current version.
October 28th, 2023
@Gweilo
Entertaining, another uneducated fanatic broadcasting racism and division. Any civil rights “changes and decisions” over the last 245-years is certainly not due to the efforts of the KKK, I mean the Democratic Party. The greatest fear to elements like “Gweilo” is a free-thinking society. The beauty of the 1st Amendment is that it allows activists like “Gweilo” a platform to embarrass himself/herself in public, giving others a good laugh.
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