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Taxation Of Private Property, Or The Regulation Of Such Property So As To Reduce Its Value, Can Become In Effect A Form Of Servitude.

To Be True To Its Constitutional Role, The Supreme Court Should Refuse To Be Drawn Into Making Public Policy, And It Should Strike Down Legislation Only When A Clear Constitutional Violation Exists. When Judicial Activists Resort To Various Inventions And Theories To Impose Their Personal Views On Privacy And Liberty, They Jeopardize The Legitimacy Of The Judiciary As An Institution And Undermine The Role Of The Other Branches Of Government.

Moreover, It Is Difficult To Reconcile Hobbes’s Distrust For The Individual With His Confidence In The Altruistic Nature Of The Individual Or Individuals Who Will Oversee And Control The Leviathan. Are Not The Latter Also Of Flesh And Blood? Hobbes Seems To Be Saying That Man’s Nature Cannot Be Trusted But The Nature Of A Ruler Or A Ruling Assembly Of Men Can Be Trusted. How So?

It Turns Out That Justices Are Also God’s Children; And Being Of This World, Their Makeup Consists Of Actual Flesh And Blood. They Are No More Noble Or Virtuous Than The Rest Of Us, And In Some Cases Less So, As They Suffer From The Usual Human Imperfections And Frailties. And The Court’s History Proves It.

The Seventeenth Amendment Serves Not The Public's Interest But The Interests Of The Governing Masterminds And Their Disciples. Its Early Proponents Advanced It Not Because They Championed 'democracy' Or The Individual, But Because They Knew It Would Be One Of Several Important Mechanisms For Empowering The Federal Government And Unraveling Constitutional Republicanism.