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To Be True To Its Constitutional Role, The Supreme Court Should Refuse To Be Drawn Into Making Public Policy, And It Should Strike Down Legislation Only When A Clear Constitutional Violation Exists. When Judicial Activists Resort To Various Inventions And Theories To Impose Their Personal Views On Privacy And Liberty, They Jeopardize The Legitimacy Of The Judiciary As An Institution And Undermine The Role Of The Other Branches Of Government.

The Conservative Sees In The Free Market The Harmony Of Interests And Rules Of Cooperation That Also Underlie The Civil Society.

Where Utopianism Is Advanced Through Gradualism Rather Than Revolution, Albeit Steady And Persistent As In Democratic Societies, It Can Deceive And Disarm An Unsuspecting Population, Which Is Largely Content And Passive. It Is Sold As Reforming And Improving The Existing Society's Imperfections And Weaknesses Without Imperiling Its Basic Nature. Under These Conditions, It Is Mostly Ignored, Dismissed, Or Tolerated By Much Of The Citizenry And Celebrated By Some. Transformation Is Deemed Innocuous, Well-intentioned, And Perhaps Constructive But Not A Dangerous Trespass On Fundamental Liberties.

Moreover, It Is Difficult To Reconcile Hobbes’s Distrust For The Individual With His Confidence In The Altruistic Nature Of The Individual Or Individuals Who Will Oversee And Control The Leviathan. Are Not The Latter Also Of Flesh And Blood? Hobbes Seems To Be Saying That Man’s Nature Cannot Be Trusted But The Nature Of A Ruler Or A Ruling Assembly Of Men Can Be Trusted. How So?

The Free Market Promotes Self-worth, Self-sufficiency, Shared Values, And Honest Dealings, Which Enhance The Individual, The Family, And The Community. It Discriminates Against No Race, Religion, Or Gender.