On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> I liked the Posner article because it confirmed my bias, which is > precisely why a Scalia fan wouldn't like it. My bias is based on the > suggestion in much political philosophy of the usefulness to the statesman, > prince, legislator or courtier (or judge?) of duplicity (Machiavelli, > Castiglione, Gracian... more recently Leo Strauss). And let's not forget > Adam Smith > Indeed and I'd also point out that there is a meta aspect to this: Shemano (and Scalia) are/were employing precisely this kind of duplicity in making the argument for textualism as a coherent and objective legal theory. -raghu.
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