Rule of Law & the genius of American Democracy

Michael Signer discusses the Rule of Law and the genius of American Democracy as demonstrated in the Supreme Court's Hamden decision yesterday. Here is a sample:

"American liberal democracy is different [from totalitarianism]. The burdens are heavy. Rawls' theory demands thoughtful and constant commitment to key principles of equality and justice, and constantly considering the gifts you did not earn that give you advantages over others. Arendt goes even farther -- we have the ability to introduce new things into the world just by being human. Our capacity to create -- in the beginning, what she calls our "natality," and then our ability to say something unpredictable, to bear children, to create new ideas -- is also our unique political ability, and the responsibility."

It is over at Democracy Arsenal. Go read it.