It is unconstitutional, insofar as it sees judges abdicating their duty to exercise independent judgment and denying litigants due process of law (which entails, among other things, a decision-making process that is impartial, grounded in credible evidence, and governed by rational principles of law).
It was the bending of governing priorities away from the common good – a process that would, over time, fatally damage the whole project of a democratic republic – of "We, the people", of the "consent of the governed".
Finally, the very idea that government would become actively involved in policing violated the basic tenets of the dominant political philosophy of the era, which held that the government that governed least governed best.
Moreover, even if advocates of autonomy as responsiveness-to-reasoning have nothing in particular in mind when they speak of the process of "reflection," "rational evaluation," etc., reasoning is a norm-governed process that an agent might reject for reasons of her own.
Were there inherent flaws in him that governed, or failed to govern, his actions?
But the key principle behind it, that our leaders govern with the consent of the governed, requires a process that accurately translates the people's votes into political power.
The lore and legend that governed the Ford were boundless.
What changed was the context that governed housing choices.
The old rules that governed Arab politics have been turned completely upside down.
Men in the eldest grade traditionally formed local district councils that governed several utui.
