Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges - Bork, Robert H.
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Bork argues that, ironically, members of the intellectual class are not necessarily very good at real intellectual work and that all too frequently their dominant passion is socialism. Although socialism's economic program is out of favor, that program is only one manifestation of the socialist desire for leveling in all areas of life. In particular, Bork asserts, there is a socialism of the culture that demands a flattening of moral and social hierarchies. Judges who belong and respond to the intellectual class, implement this agenda through rulings that purport to be constitutional but have…mehr

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Bork argues that, ironically, members of the intellectual class are not necessarily very good at real intellectual work and that all too frequently their dominant passion is socialism. Although socialism's economic program is out of favor, that program is only one manifestation of the socialist desire for leveling in all areas of life. In particular, Bork asserts, there is a socialism of the culture that demands a flattening of moral and social hierarchies. Judges who belong and respond to the intellectual class, implement this agenda through rulings that purport to be constitutional but have little, if any, basis in actual constitutions. Coercing Virtue shows how numerous aspects of the activists' program - hostility to religion, destruction of sexual standards, endorsement of racial and sexual preferences in employment and university admissions, the invention of a right to choose abortion, to name only a few - have spread across national boundaries. He calls on citizens in all Western-style democracies to stand up and take notice of what is happening in their courts before it is too late.
Former U.S. solicitor general Robert H. Bork examines the practice of many courts as they consider and decide matters that are not committed to their authority by any legal document.
Autorenporträt
Robert H. Bork is the author of The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law and Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, and The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War With Itself. He served as Solicitor General and Acting Attorney General of the United States and was a U.S. Court of Appeals judge. Bork is a senior fellow at AEI. He and his wife live in McLean, Virginia.