Portraying constitutional conscience truthfully requires offering a moral choice
Evidence
In my view, the most important part of Powell’s paper is his claim that, by declining to lecture the reader about the proper attributes of a constitutional conscience, I am portraying the conscience and faith of the constitutional decisionmaker “in the only truthful manner.” It is consistent with this view that I should therefore offer the reader a moral choice about undertaking the activity I describe. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 169
Categorization
- SEED: An essay angle: how a legal theory book stages a moral choice for its reader instead of lecturing, and what that implies for nonfiction pedagogy.
- XREF: connects to: In my view, the most important part of Powell’s paper is his claim that, by declining to lecture the reader about the proper attributes of a constitutional conscience, I am portraying the conscience and faith of the constitutional decisionmaker ‘in the only truthful manner.’; Legal indeterminacy is inherent and requires a justified role for conscience — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 786; Constitutional conscience depends on faith, else it degenerates into expediency — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 402 (+2 more)
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- Legal indeterminacy is inherent and requires a justified role for conscience (similarity 0.81)
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Broader Connections
- Constitutional conscience depends on faith, else it degenerates into expediency
#expands(0.55) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 402 - Maintaining core moral beliefs requires faith, not causal explanation
#expands(0.50) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 896