Saturday, December 10, 2022

Critics Call It Theocratic and Authoritarian. Young Conservatives Call It an Exciting New Legal Theory. - POLITICO

"Readers should not be gullible about what common good constitutionalism represents," Schwartzman and Schragger wrote. The theory "serves Vermeule's larger goal, which is the establishment of a state integrated with — or, more accurately, subordinated to — religious ends."… 
Taken together, these two arguments read an awful lot like a defense of a pseudo-constitutional dictatorship, or at the very least as a plausible legal justification for a right-wing coup. Vermeule doesn't go to great lengths to obscure this conclusion. At the end of the section on subsidiary, he cites the Catholic theologian Johannes Messner to argue that in some cases, a limited form of dictatorship may "be compatible with the principle of subsidiary."…


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