| Conservatives v. Libertarians
Root, Damon W.
Reason, July 2010, v42, #3, pp25-33
"The conservative legal movement occupies one of the biggest tents in American politics, with a membership ranging from religious traditionalists to gay-friendly libertarians who shouldn't really be called conservatives at all. The movement's origins lie in the political backlash against the Supreme Court's perceived liberal activism during the 1960s and '70s, when it issued landmark decisions legalizing abortion, giving defendants procedural safeguards against self-mcrimination, endorsing school busing, applying "heightened" judicial scrutiny to alleged sex discrimination by the government, limiting the scope of executive power, and loosening the eligibility requirements for federal welfare programs. In the eyes of many conservatives, the Court wasn't just fulfilling the liberal wish list; it was inventing new rights previously unrecognized in constitutional law."
Damon W. Root is an associate editor of Reason
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