Constitutional Law,
Government,
U.S. Supreme Court
Feb. 9, 2017
Reasons for political action must be based in reality
Federal court review of political actions like the travel ban must occur in an environment of elevated respect for empirical fact.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
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Whittier Law School
In 1653, Thomas Hobbes presented his dark vision of mankind's natural condition absent a strong state as a war of everyone against everyone. The life of man was, he famously wrote, "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." In 1588, he was born prematurely, purportedly due to his mother's anxiety on the cusp of the Spanish Armada's impending attack on England, a planned invasion ultimately thwarted by a providential storm which destroyed the fleet. The mature English political philosophe...
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