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March 28, 2005
I Am Starting To Like My Senator Part 3
Senator Jon Cornyn has an column in National Review Online today complaining about federal judges who look to foreign law to decide cases. He writes,
I fear, however, that today some judges may be departing so far from American law, American principles, and American traditions, that the only way they can justify their rulings from the bench is to cite the law of foreign countries, foreign governments, and foreign cultures — because there is nothing in this country left for them to cite for support. What's more, citing foreign law in order to overrule U.S. policy is especially offensive to our constitutional democracy, because foreign lawmaking is in no way accountable to the American people.
The key to American government legitimacy is that the law is derived from the just consent of the governed, and as soon as the people have no say in the laws that govern them, the government looses its legitimacy.
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