PHILOS 2Q03 Chapter Notes - Chapter Waluchow: Liberal Democracy, Precommitment
31 Mar 2018
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Arguments against the charter include: the argument from democracy. Sometimes condemned as disrespectful entities of democratic self-rule. Allowing unelected judges to overrule considered views of responsible legislators represents the complete abandonment of self-government: hobbsean predators and respect for persons. Points to the inevitable bias introduced in our political and legal cultures when judges are allowed to decide the kinds of questions raised by charters. The consequence of this : suppression of women, minority racial groups, and the poor whose interests are not adequately recognized / supported by the dominant ideologies of judiciaries and the elite: the threat of moral nihilism: The charters" appeal stems from na ve views of morality and rationality and the moral limits which they are meant to enshrine. Concerns views of objectively right" answers to moral questions which raise in charter cases. Critics are skeptic about the objectivity" or moral reasoning: morality is a wholly subjective and relative debate, the level of public debate.
