W hen Americans register to vote, they should be issued a credit card by a special public company– call it the Patriot card and color it red, white, and blue. This card will become the basis of campaign finance. Suppose each voter’s card were automatically credited with a $10 balance for the 1996 presidential election. […]
Bruce Ackerman
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author, most recently, of Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law (Harvard University Press, 2019).
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The Grand Inquisitor
Robert Bork bids us to be faithful to the Founders and reject heretics who read theory into the law. But, like the Grand Inquisitor, he inwardly betrays his cause.
