(June 26, 2015 at 12:04 pm)Cato Wrote:(June 26, 2015 at 11:43 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: The idea that rights should be determined by popular sentiment is a startling, and uneducated, view, for a Supreme Court Justice to hold.
The words 'tyranny of the majority' kept playing on a constant loop in my head as I was reading Scalia's dissent.
Exactly. For a guy who claims to adore the Founding Fathers, it's amazing that Scalia would be so ignorant of Madison's work and warnings.
Of course, given Scalia's antipathy to most of our rights, and given that Madison helped in large part to author the Bill of Rights, I perhaps should understand Scalia's ignorance to be a matter of course.
