It's & # 039; First, kill all the lawyers & # 039; the democrats & # 039; New creed?
It's & # 039; First, kill all the lawyers & # 039; the democrats & # 039; New creed?
In "Henry VI" by Shakespeare, Jack Cade promises a coup that will make him king, after which "the whole kingdom will be in common" with rewards for all. To which the killer Dick the Butcher responds: "The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers".
This frequently cited line has become a joke of lawyers, but Shakespeare, no doubt, also wanted to convey a revolutionary zeal. If you destroy lawyers, you also do it in the law. That would have gone well for Dick.
Moving forward to last Saturday, after Brett Kavanaugh concluded his own dramatic turn on the world stage by moving up to the Supreme Court. His Democratic tormentors, including the senator from California, Dianne Feinstein, 85, do not want the drama to end. The tone and the shout that Judge Kavanaugh "would taint" the future decisions of the Supreme Court was unleashed. Adam Serwer of the Atlantic did not leave it that way, shouting that the three branches of the government had been affected by the "corruption trumpista".
Maybe it's time for the Democrats to calm down. You probably do not know, since reading history has gone out of style, but your hatred of Donald Trump has now turned into what appears to be an attack on US institutions. As a party on the left, you should be more careful with any suggestions of this kind. Modern history records that it is the left, not the right, that has been most guilty of destroying the institutions that protected citizens from authoritarian rule.
Mrs. Feinstein should know better. For someone in his position to suggest that Judge Kavanaugh's appointment "undermines the legitimacy of the Supreme Court," as he tweeted on Saturday, it is not enough to suggest that we kill all the lawyers. But it does strike a blow against the sanctity of the judiciary. That is a more serious offense than the senator intended. It constitutes an attack on the rule of law, an institution at the heart of the much admired and widely emulated success of the American experiment in self-government.
Other large nations have tried similar experiments, which all too often have led to disastrous failures. It is often forgotten that the Russians tried to run a representative government, choosing their first State Duma, or parliament, in 1906 and making some progress for 11 years until the effort was destroyed by the revolution. Lenin said that the Bolsheviks "found power in the streets and simply picked it up." We know how it turned out; The Russian people continue to live with their legacy.
China also made a weak attempt at representative government after the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, but could not build the civil institutions to sustain it. As a result, they finally ended up with Mao, who, like Stalin, took responsibility for the deaths of millions of people. Both dictators set out to abolish the property and, in the process, assassinated the owners. In both cases, the vital institution that was missing was the rule of law, which these countries had never achieved and could not achieve.
The tragedy of Venezuela in modern times is that the people elected a populist president, Hugo Chávez, who immediately began to dismantle civil institutions. Today we see the results when millions of Venezuelans flee their homeland.
America was lucky The Americans in 1776 did not rebel against the development of parliamentary government in London. They rebelled against being excluded by a clumsy King George III from participating in the parliamentary process. So they separated and established their own representative government with a constitution that has held the nation together even in times of great pressure, as in 1861. Brett Kavanaugh has shown in his decisions of the appellate court that he is a constitutionalist.
It is not a good omen when the leaders of an important party and their followers in the press seem to justify the lack of law simply because they do not like the president who chose the country. In National Review Online last weekend, Andrew C. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, reviews the recent warning signs of this turn to anarchy. One example was the use by the FBI in 2016 of a fake record fabricated by the Democrats as a reason to spy on the Trump campaign. Under the title "The Left criminalizes politics through weapons research," Mr. McCarthy writes about Kavanaugh's hearings:
"The world has changed. People who do not care about the rules can no longer be dismissed as marginal people. For generations, leftist activists have instructed students and other groups that norms are the basic components of a rigged system that deprives them of power and denies their "disinterested" desires.
"We do not want to recognize what has happened, we have rules because they safeguard fundamental principles, such as due process, the presumption of innocence and freedom from unreasonable and unjustified police, but the left is no longer attached to those principles."
That is a very damning accusation with serious implications for the future of the nation. Instead of looking for the Republican "stain," perhaps Democratic fire aspirators should try a little self-examination.
Mr. Melloan is a former deputy editor of the Journal's editorial page. His book on the costs of fake science will soon be published by Lyons Press.
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