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America's Written Constitution: Remembering The Judicial Duty To Say What The Law Is, Joshua J. Schroeder
America's Written Constitution: Remembering The Judicial Duty To Say What The Law Is, Joshua J. Schroeder
Joshua J Schroeder
In 2013 the Supreme Court embraced a policy of feigned positivism. In general positivism says there are no future rewards and punishments and thus there is no Natural Law that holds sway over rulers whether it is established by a creator God or not. Thus adopting positivism leaves the Court with an existential problem because the Court’s equitable power flows directly from Natural Law and Nature’s God and is much older than the new country known as the United States. But even in the scope of U.S. history positivism lost significant ground in its struggle with equitable power and the …