Tag Archives: Liberty
Dobbs Sentences #137: Part II C 1
Paragraph 3 of 6 Sentence 3 of 3 The paragraph ends with two claims: “License to act on the basis of such beliefs may correspond to one of the many understandings of ‘liberty,’ but it is certainly not ‘ordered liberty’.” The claims: The first claim is true in the sense that it’s just a basic […]
Dobbs Sentences #42: Part II A 2
Paragraph 9 of 9 Sentence 3 of 4 The next sentence contains four claims, the first of which is the whole sentence: “Instead, guided by the history and tradition that map the essential components of our Nation’s concept of ordered liberty, we must ask what the Fourteenth Amendment means by the term ‘liberty.’” Here they […]
Dobbs Sentences #36: Part II A 2
Paragraph 8 of 9 Sentence 1 of 4 The next sentence is a single simple claim that makes an important distinction: “In interpreting what is meant by the Fourteenth Amendment’s reference to ‘liberty,’ we must guard against the natural human tendency to confuse what that Amendment protects with our own ardent views about the liberty […]
Dobbs Sentences #35: Part II A 2
Paragraph 7 of 9 Sentence 4 of 4 The next sentence is a single claim: “In a well-known essay, Isaiah Berlin reported that ‘[h]istorians of ideas’ had cataloged more than 200 different senses in which the term had been used.” The essay in question is “Two Concepts of Liberty.” The Court has cited the book […]
Dobbs Sentences #34: Part II A 2
Paragraph 7 of 9 Sentence 3 of 4 The third sentence in this paragraph might look like one claim at first glance, but really it’s two. Neither is really interesting: “As Lincoln once said: ‘We all declare for Liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.’” Here are […]
Dobbs Sentences #33: Part II A 2
Paragraph 7 of 9 Sentence 2 of 4 The next sentence is simple, but can’t really be assessed on its own merits: “’Liberty’ is a capacious term.” Cool. I suppose I could spend some time thinking about this, but let’s see what the Dobbs Court does with it first. For now this claim is undetermined:
Dobbs Sentences #9: Part II A 1
Paragraph 3 of 5 Sentence 4 of 6 This feels like it’s covering the same ground as previous sentences, but it probably isn’t, which can just serve as a reminder to me about how little I really know about legal theory. Here’s the sentence: “And a third path was that the First, Fourth, and Fifth […]
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