February 15 marks the 270th birthday of the English philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham. Bentham is typically remembered for his formulation of the principle of utility: the greatest happiness of the greatest number as the measure of legislation. He’s also known for instructing that his body be preserved as an “auto-icon” and the apocryphal story that the body is regularly brought out for board meetings at the University College London.
But in these days, when judges are de facto legislators, what we ought to remember Bentham for is his perspicacious warning about the danger of judicial power. Judges in Bentham’s Great Britain were supposed to be limited by the principle of parliamentary sovereignty. As the ultimate authority, Parliament had the uncontrollable ability to make, enlarge, or abrogate laws. Courts had a role in interpreting parliamentary enactments and expounding the customary law of the realm, but they could not overturn an Act of Parliament as unconstitutional.
Despite the constitutional limitations on the British judiciary, Bentham noticed a tendency in the judges to aggrandize their office through interpretative chicanery. Parliament, the judges oft observed, would not knowingly enact any law contrary to reason; therefore, the judiciary had to construe statutes to ensure a reasonable result. And what is reasonable? “[F]or my part I will speak plainly,” Bentham declared, “and confess that with me to be most evidently contrary to reason, is to be most evidently contrary to my reason, i.e., to what I like.” The same tendency, Bentham concluded, was true of the judges and was obvious in their rulings.
Bentham saw a similar judicial legerdemain used in the exposition of the common law. Under the pretense of merely declaring what was pre-existing customary law, the judges created new law and built upon judicial precedents to direct the law’s development to suit their own inclinations. If they came across an earlier case that was incongruent with their policy preferences, the judges again turned to the inward reason of the law. “The trick is,” Bentham wrote, “when [the judges] are satisfied that the thing is not Law, say it is not reason.” This allows for long existing precedent to be overturned and replaced.
To counter the unbridled power of the judges, Bentham proposed that all laws be codified. The citizen, Bentham believed, should be able to search and study the laws that applied to him rather than guess about what a judge believed was reasonable. Moreover, Parliament was subject to regular election, and thus the people could exercise some influence and control over the lawmaking body of the realm via the franchise. With the judiciary, the people had no avenue of remonstrance or control.
Modern American judges use many of the same tricks that Bentham inveighed against, but to a degree unimaginable in Bentham’s day. For example, despite the U.S. Constitution specifically providing that government may take the life, liberty, or property of a convicted criminal if proper procedures are followed, many judges and academics insist that the death penalty is per se unconstitutional. They argue that capital punishment is unreasonable and that established, written constitutional law evolves to suit the judges’ conception of a good society.
Similarly, the Supreme Court has ruled that constitutional safeguards requiring “due process of law” grant the courts the power to review the substance – that is, the reasonableness – of all legislation. This has set the courts up as super-legislatures examining various federal and state statutes under a sliding scale of scrutiny. Today, the courts evaluate the policy objectives of everything from marriage law to immigration regulations. Enactments contrary to the judges’ personal opinions are declared unreasonable and struck from the code books. This doctrine of “substantive due process” has worked a great unconstitutional shift of power away from the people and their representatives to the federal judiciary.
We would do well to remember Jeremy Bentham on his 270th birthday. At the heart of Bentham’s criticisms were concerns about unelected and unaccountable officials making law for the people. Bentham recognized that only those beholden to the people should be permitted to make law. We too should seize on this principle as we seek to reform our constitutional order.
William J. Watkins, Jr. is a research fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Crossroads for Liberty: Recovering the Anti-Federalist Values of America’s First Constitution (2016, Independent Institute).
February 15 marks the 270th birthday of the English philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham. Bentham is typically remembered for his formulation of the principle of utility: the greatest happiness of the greatest number as the measure of legislation. He’s also known for instructing that his body be preserved as an “auto-icon” and the apocryphal story that the body is regularly brought out for board meetings at the University College London.
But in these days, when judges are de facto legislators, what we ought to remember Bentham for is his perspicacious warning about the danger of judicial power. Judges in Bentham’s Great Britain were supposed to be limited by the principle of parliamentary sovereignty. As the ultimate authority, Parliament had the uncontrollable ability to make, enlarge, or abrogate laws. Courts had a role in interpreting parliamentary enactments and expounding the customary law of the realm, but they could not overturn an Act of Parliament as unconstitutional.
Despite the constitutional limitations on the British judiciary, Bentham noticed a tendency in the judges to aggrandize their office through interpretative chicanery. Parliament, the judges oft observed, would not knowingly enact any law contrary to reason; therefore, the judiciary had to construe statutes to ensure a reasonable result. And what is reasonable? “[F]or my part I will speak plainly,” Bentham declared, “and confess that with me to be most evidently contrary to reason, is to be most evidently contrary to my reason, i.e., to what I like.” The same tendency, Bentham concluded, was true of the judges and was obvious in their rulings.
Bentham saw a similar judicial legerdemain used in the exposition of the common law. Under the pretense of merely declaring what was pre-existing customary law, the judges created new law and built upon judicial precedents to direct the law’s development to suit their own inclinations. If they came across an earlier case that was incongruent with their policy preferences, the judges again turned to the inward reason of the law. “The trick is,” Bentham wrote, “when [the judges] are satisfied that the thing is not Law, say it is not reason.” This allows for long existing precedent to be overturned and replaced.
To counter the unbridled power of the judges, Bentham proposed that all laws be codified. The citizen, Bentham believed, should be able to search and study the laws that applied to him rather than guess about what a judge believed was reasonable. Moreover, Parliament was subject to regular election, and thus the people could exercise some influence and control over the lawmaking body of the realm via the franchise. With the judiciary, the people had no avenue of remonstrance or control.
Modern American judges use many of the same tricks that Bentham inveighed against, but to a degree unimaginable in Bentham’s day. For example, despite the U.S. Constitution specifically providing that government may take the life, liberty, or property of a convicted criminal if proper procedures are followed, many judges and academics insist that the death penalty is per se unconstitutional. They argue that capital punishment is unreasonable and that established, written constitutional law evolves to suit the judges’ conception of a good society.
Similarly, the Supreme Court has ruled that constitutional safeguards requiring “due process of law” grant the courts the power to review the substance – that is, the reasonableness – of all legislation. This has set the courts up as super-legislatures examining various federal and state statutes under a sliding scale of scrutiny. Today, the courts evaluate the policy objectives of everything from marriage law to immigration regulations. Enactments contrary to the judges’ personal opinions are declared unreasonable and struck from the code books. This doctrine of “substantive due process” has worked a great unconstitutional shift of power away from the people and their representatives to the federal judiciary.
We would do well to remember Jeremy Bentham on his 270th birthday. At the heart of Bentham’s criticisms were concerns about unelected and unaccountable officials making law for the people. Bentham recognized that only those beholden to the people should be permitted to make law. We too should seize on this principle as we seek to reform our constitutional order.
William J. Watkins, Jr. is a research fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Crossroads for Liberty: Recovering the Anti-Federalist Values of America’s First Constitution (2016, Independent Institute).
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Stray Dog Found Warming Abandoned Kittens On Side Of Snowy Road…
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Australian man who brutally attacked two backpackers sentenced to 22 years in prison
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Liberals Don't Need to Win Elections to Get What They Want
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Bush disagrees with Trump, says press not an 'enemy'
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'Seductive' dress forces girl to quit Malaysia chess tournament, coach says
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Turkey crashes through SUV's windshield
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O'Reilly slams Hillary's Scranton speech: 'Most divisive woman in the country'
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GOP Would Rather Lose than Fight
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Spicer: 'The Trump administration has not taken an official position' on Israeli settlements
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Arkansas boy dies after being left in day care van for over 8 hours
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UK lawmakers overwhelmingly vote to support snap election
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Watchdog says DEA botched deadly Honduras raids
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Fake arrest helps Connecticut teen get a 'yes' for prom
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Bill Ackman dumps Valeant, all of it
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Philippine court affirms conviction of US Marine
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Pentagon to send almost 4,000 additional forces to Afghanistan, US official says
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Hillary Clinton spotted at a 'Victorian castle resort'
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On expensive Pentagon programs, McCain and Trump just might get along
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Claim: Clinton campaign emails came from 'inside leaks,' not Russian hackers
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Jeb Bush warns robots taking US jobs is not science fiction
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Droid teachers invade kindergartens…
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French man has leg amputated after Hawaii shark attack
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Assange may soon die in jail, father warns…
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Saudi Arabia’s morality police has called on other agencies to investigate the video of a young Saudi woman wearing a ...
London fire: Death toll rises to 12 after apartment building engulfed in flames
The death toll of a deadly overnight fire that engulfed a 24-story London apartment tower Wednesday has risen to 12, ...
Big goals of Trump's Inaugural address equal big risks for 2018
President Trump assumed office on Friday promising bold action and big changes in Washington, presenting his administration and his party ...
White House chooses Ryan aide to head House lobbying shop
By David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) • 2/7/17 9:12 AM David Drucker Senior Congressional Correspondent The Washington Examiner http://s3.amazonaws.com/content.washingtonexaminer.biz/images/static/authors/Drucker-3.jpg The White ...
Dinner with Trump costs WHAT?
Looking to get one step closer to the White House? With a little donation to the president’s re-election committee, that ...
Virginia law will give drug addicts clean needles
A new law in Virginia will permit health departments to provide clean needles to drug addicts in order to help ...
Chew on This: Gum Promises to Help Sleep, Make Skinny…
Chew on This: Gum Promises to Help Sleep, Make Skinny... (First column, 16th story, link) Source link
Trump expected to sign executive action related to voter fraud
By Sarah Westwood (@sarahcwestwood) • 1/26/17 11:47 AM Sarah Westwood White House Reporter The Washington Examiner http://s3.amazonaws.com/content.washingtonexaminer.biz/images/static/authors/Westwood-3.jpg President Trump is ...
Protesters burn tires in Iraq in renewed anti-govt rage…
(Adds cabinet approves resignation, populist cleric comment) BAGHDAD, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Protesters burned tyres and surrounded a police station ...
Netanyahu: Palestinians must prove they want peace
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday in an exclusive Fox News interview that Israel would make peace with Palestinians by demanding they ...
Film Academy rules ineligible documentary series like 'O.J.'
In what has already been nicknamed “the O.J. rule,” the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Friday declared ...
Eat your apple pie today
Imagine a day simply dedicated to eating pies– whether it’s a savory pizza or a sweet apple dessert? This isn’t ...
$10G to leave San Francisco?
Tech company Zapier says San Francisco is a fantastic city—and it would like to encourage its employees to move far ...
Former Illinois prosecutor not guilty in first wife's death
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Former Illinois prosecutor and University of Illinois football captain Curtis Lovelace was found not guilty Friday in ...
California may face 'significant risk' from dam
SAN FRANCISCO – California is courting a “very significant risk” if a damaged spillway on the nation’s tallest dam is ...
New Evidence Bolsters Probability that Hillary Clinton Was Hacked
We the American people were told repeatedly by Hillary Clinton and her proxies during the endless 2016 presidential election that ...
2 Dead on Tom Cruise Movie Shoot…
Was a tragedy during the production of Cruise’s ‘American Made’ preventable? Conflicting accounts and a pilot in a “death pool” ...
The Zen Cult of Death in Wartime Japan
In my university student days, I had a professor of Japanese Buddhist literature who often contrasted the peaceable, broad-minded nature ...
Las Vegas on the cheap?
Many of America’s most popular cities aren’t cheap. But that doesn’t mean you can’t find ways to save money and ...
Biometrics: A Different Kind of Border Wall
The liberal media rejoiced at the news that Donald Trump’s border wall received precious little money from the recent omnibus ...
Obama grants 153 commutations, 78 pardons
President Obama on Monday granted 153 commutations and 78 pardons. According to the White House, it is the most individual ...
Appeals court blocks DC's concealed-carry law on Second Amendment grounds
A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a District of Columbia gun-control measure that the court said is essentially ...
The Tumultuous Effect of the LGBT Agenda on One Young Mind
Sometimes something as mundane as a visit to a drive-through can leave your head splitting from an overdose of culture ...
Trump aides vague on Obamacare repeal timing
Top aides to President-elect Trump issued only vague statements Sunday on their preference for the sequencing of the Republican Congress’ ...
Dear NEA: Art Is a Bad Investment
Donald Trump’s proposal to scrap federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has ...
St. Louis' NFL lawsuit could open legal, PR floodgates
The city of St. Louis’ lawsuit this week against the NFL and its 32 teams over the Rams’ move to ...
Why Jared Kushner Was Crucial to the Saudi Opening
Well, the libs have a new scapegoat for their more sadistic rants, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. They just want ...
How porn affects sex life
You think it’s a bit of harmless fun, but watching porn really does affect a man’s performance in the bedroom. ...
Shocking duck discovery
You probably thought ducks were cute waddlers who liked to eat your stale bread. Poof, your bubble has been burst. ...
PolitiFact confirms we can't have 'four more years!' of Obama
By Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) • 1/10/17 11:48 PM Daniel Chaitin Senior Web Producer The Washington Examiner http://s3.amazonaws.com/content.washingtonexaminer.biz/images/static/authors/HeadshotChatin_Daniel.jpg For those unsure ...
'Make Them Bake Cake': The Bizarre Arguments against Bakers' Free Speech Rights
Last week’s New York Times piece by Jennifer Finney Boylan, “The Masterpiece Cakeshop Case Is Not About Religious Freedom,” floored ...
'SNL': 'Puti is going to make everything OK'
By Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) • 1/21/17 11:47 PM Daniel Chaitin Senior Web Producer The Washington Examiner http://s3.amazonaws.com/content.washingtonexaminer.biz/images/static/authors/HeadshotChatin_Daniel.jpg “Saturday Night Live” ...
Leading Obamacare critic doubtful of quick replacement
A leading Republican critic of Obamacare expressed doubt Wednesday that his colleagues would be able to agree on a replacement ...
Journalist seriously wounded after being shot in the head in Mexico
MEXICO CITY – Another journalist has come under attack in Mexico. This time the victim is a woman who hosts ...
Nebraska soccer tournament kicks out 8-year-old girl because she 'looks like a boy,' family says
Mili Hernandez, 8, loves soccer and was looking forward to playing at the Springfield Soccer Club girls’ tournament in Nebraska ...
Sen. Graham: Source told me I was requested 'unmasked' – VIDEO: Sen. Graham fears Comey testimony may be 'hit job' on Trump
A third former Republican presidential candidate is publicly asking if the Obama administration may have improperly “unmasked” him in intercepts ...
Trump retweets media coverage rants
President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at the media on Monday night by retweeting posts criticizing the press for its alleged ...
Mattis will emphasize civilian control of military at confirmation
Retired Gen. James Mattis will emphasize his commitment to a military controlled by civilians in excerpts of the opening statement ...
'TUCKER TONIGHT' Dershowitz says special counsel will help Trump
Although many on the left have expressed their approval of Robert Mueller being appointed as special counsel to investigate possible collusion ...
European nations not returning Jewish properties taken during Holocaust era – Holocaust Remembrance Day: Thousands at Auschwitz for yearly memorial event – US Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicates conservation center in Maryland
Many European nations behind the former Iron Curtain have failed to return property taken from Jews before and during World ...
Tabloid Critical Race Theory
Metro (or Ashitha Nagesh) tells us:
“On Monday a national newspaper, the Herald in Ireland, published a story about ...
Iran’s Election, a Political Earthquake with Seismic Waves for the Region.
Officials in the Iranian regime have, from time to time, defined their regime as, “if the whole Iranian populace have ...
Son of hook-handed Muslim preacher says he was stripped of UK passport after fleeing to Syria
Hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza’s jihadi son claims he has been stripped of his U.K. passport by the Home Office. Fighter ...
Imperial Obsession and the War on Terror
That after 16 years of counterinsurgency, we resorted to deploying the largest conventional bomb in our inventory to kill only ...
Minnesota officials confirm 48 measles cases as outbreak worsens
Minnesota health officials said Monday that Somali families in the state had been “targeted with misinformation” about vaccines as the ...
Venezuelan protesters reportedly set to use fecal cocktails to throw at police
Protesters in Venezuela have reportedly started to throw feces at security forces in a new tactic that has been called ...
Two-Faced Saudis Welcome Trump
“Drive them out! Drive them out!” With these words, Pres. Donald J. Trump sounded the alarm against the evils of ...
8 arrested in connection with St. Petersburg bombing
Eight members of extremist cells have been arrested in connection with last week’s deadly bombing on the subway in St. ...
Small Gestures, Big Impact: Feeling Loved Increases Well-Being…
New research reveals that people who experience simple moments of love and appreciation on a daily basis from others feel ...
Housewife: Double homicide car
“Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Kim DePaola — whose Audi became the center of an execution-style double homicide in Paterson last week — ...
Zuckerberg again rejects claims of Facebook impact on U.S. election
By Chris Prentice | NEW YORK NEW YORK Facebook Inc chief executive Mark Zuckerberg again rejected the idea that the ...
'Very nice': Trump gloats after GOP rivals phone to congratulate him
President-elect Trump spoke with several of his Republican rivals over the weekend and spent Sunday morning gloating about his “very ...
CPAC attendees share their worst experiences wearing their 'Make America Great Again' hats
By Sean Langille (@seanlangille) • 2/24/17 6:36 PM Sean Langille Digital Engagement Editor The Washington Examiner http://s3.amazonaws.com/content.washingtonexaminer.biz/images/static/authors/Langille-3.jpg OXON HILL, Md. ...
How Trump's Navy could mix it up with Iranian attack boats
If Iranian boats harassed a U.S. destroyer in the Strait of Hormuz on Jan. 28 like they did on Jan. ...
Conservative watchdog group files lawsuit for metadata of Comey memos
Conservative watchdog organization Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice asking for the metadata of the ...
DEMS DISRUPTION Senators push for special prosecutor in Russia probe
Senate Democrats intensified efforts Wednesday to pressure Republicans who control the chamber to support the appointment of a special prosecutor ...
Why Disney fired Kermit
Disney’s decision to fire muppeteer Steve Whitmire was one that may have been made after years of reported disagreements. “The ...
Is CNN proving President Trump's point?
Recently, “[m]ore than 300 newspapers published editorials on the dangers of President Trump and his administration’s verbal assault on the press.” Many ...
