Re: Economist perspective: Civil Liberties
purpose is accomplishing the legislative goal of reducing crime. If we only had laws for purpose, we should stop at nothing to accomplish this goal. Give full cavity searches of everyone everywhere, search all houses randomly, torture people, etc.
The only reason we dont accept this is because the purposeful action of the law must be balanced with constitutional rights that are granted to all individuals. Legislative authority only exists so far as individuals constitutionally provide such authority so those who bear the contract lose their share of claims if martial law rains.
The contract explicitly places the constitutional rights of those individuals who represent the initial contract above any lower authority granted within.
To ignore this is to misread the value of the effect of any action to the contrary.
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