The Court has not given any sound, principled justification for permitting the Court of Appeals to thrust itself into the trial process in this case.
To be culturally significant, you need some sort of principled justification, and there has been no shortage of that.
Sounding like one of Marion Jones's lawyers, Rhoden insisted that absent a failed drug test, there could be no principled justification for barring an athlete from competition.
So Kant writes, "the undeserved evil which anyone commits to another is to be one regarded as perpetrated on himself". That is, a principled justification for punishment in kind to the harm one has committed underlies Kant's picture.
(If successful, such a defence would also provide a principled justification of the common de facto linkage of supervaluation theory and a representational view of vagueness).
And unless the Court better identifies the core values of the Second Amendment, it will be difficult to give the categories any principled justification.
Unlike Locke, this is not a principled justification for resistance, so much as a concatenation of points about Americans taking their collective identity and independent interests seriously and separating from the increasingly arbitrary rule of Britain.
The U.S. financial debt to China and Saudi Arabia thwarts principled human rights justifications, the European Union and Japan provide counterweights to the hegemony of the U.S. dollar, the majority of Latin American nations elected leftist governments who set up cooperative institutions challenging the U.S., and Bush's failed 2003 invasion of Iraq was done without the U.N.'s blessing.
He is seeking, as he says repeatedly, a principled philosophical justification of the special treatment religion seems to receive in the Constitution.
It's not clear, however, that there is a plausible principled libertarian justification (as opposed to a practical one) for such a statute of limitations.
