Check out this interesting piece by Paul Mirengoff and Scott Johnson (The guys of Power Line fame) over at the Weekly Standard on how Georg Hegel was a major influence on President Wilson and several of our current Supreme Court Justices like Ginsburg and Breyer who have this undying devotion to a "living Constitutution." Mirengoff and Johnson demonstrated that liberals who think that the Constitution should change with the times instead a being locked into stone like it was when it was agreed upon this week some 218 years by the Founding Fathers, are indeed students of Hegel's "dialectic." (You can change it but through an amending process to prevent everyone from getting willy-nilly in pushing through changes daily.) I think the duo pointed out the best example of how Hegel has gained such a grasp on the liberal thought process since Wilson by pointing out this quote by the late Princeton don:
"Justly revered as our great constitution is, it could be stripped off and thrown aside like a garment, and the nation would still stand forth in the living vestment of flesh and sinew, warm with the heart-blood of one people, ready to recreate constitutions and laws."That just about sums up the whole thought process of some of our elected officials and a certain set of US Supreme Court Justices. I just hope that we don't appoint more "men in black" in this same mold. Even if you doubt my word or the word of these two, then at least check out Ronald Pestritto wonderful book Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism to get the goods.
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