{"id":1605,"date":"2003-07-12T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2003-07-12T22:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/07\/libertarianism-reborn\/"},"modified":"2003-07-12T15:39:14","modified_gmt":"2003-07-12T22:39:14","slug":"libertarianism-reborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/12\/libertarianism-reborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Libertarianism Reborn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe Supreme Court’s varying opinions in the Texas sodomy case struck me as a politically motivated jockeying between the conservative faction and one more attuned to Senatorial sentiment. Libertarian law professor Randy Barnett finds some actual jurisprudence<\/a> in the Kennedy opinion:<\/p>\n

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Contrary to what has been reported repeatedly in the press, the Court in Lawrence did not protect a “right of privacy.” Rather, it protected “liberty” — and without showing that the particular liberty in question is somehow “fundamental.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have to admit that my first take was hasty, and Barnett’s puts the issues into a much more coherent perspective. If he’s right, Lawrence sets the stage for a radical new turn by the court, and a very good one at that.<\/p>\n

Via Hit and Run<\/a> and Instapundit<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court’s varying opinions in the Texas sodomy case struck me as a politically motivated jockeying between the conservative faction and one more attuned to Senatorial sentiment. Libertarian law professor Randy Barnett finds some actual jurisprudence in the Kennedy opinion: Contrary to what has been reported repeatedly in the press, the Court in Lawrence … Continue reading “Libertarianism Reborn”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-pT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}