Thursday morning is decision time for the U.S. Supreme Court. Will they continue as rubber stamp for unlimited government? Will they give up on checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution? Will the liberty of contract be a relic of the past, with an HHS Secretary coming out with Leninist edicts at will in the name of the "public interest"? Here's hoping a majority of the Court finds their "inner" George Sutherland (the hated Supreme Court justice by law professors nationwide). Historian Jim Powell explains who the man who took on FDR was :
The most impressive thinker was George Sutherland, a champion of natural rights jurisprudence. He believed the most important function of law was to protect individual liberty by restraining government power – historically, the biggest threat to liberty everywhere. Sutherland understood that for ordinary people, economic liberty was generally the most important liberty. Intellectuals tended to rate First Amendment liberties more highly because they spoke out publicly and published their political views, but every individual’s livelihood depended on freedom to choose where to work, where to live, where to travel, where to spend money, what to buy and how much to pay. Freedom of contract was absolutely essential for all these things. It would be hard to find a Supreme Court justice who ever did a better job defending economic liberty than George Sutherland.Let freedom ring Thursday morning.
