Does Economic History Matter?
January 29th, 2008 by 
bkmarcus
My friend messaged me recently, saying "I don't think I can finish this article," followed by the section that stuck:
"Democrats will respond that Thomas, Alito and their allies on the Court are the true judicial activists who are working to return us to the dark laissez-faire days before the New Deal."
Of course, the Democratic distortions of history should be irrelevant to a principled constitutionalist, but we all know that principled people of any sort are few and far between. Consequentialism rules, literally. And bad history rules among the consequentialists.
