Hard cases make bad law, an adage apparently coined before 1837 tells us. In other words, “an extreme case is a poor basis for a general law that would cover a wider range of less extreme cases.” Not everyone has agreed that this is the case, but we’ll let that go. I just want to point out that easy cases also may make bad law, or at least bad rules.
Day: January 21, 2022
Limited Government and Communism
What do the two share in common? The original end-concept of the latter was that ultimately, via socialism, the State would simply disappear altogether.