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- Title: Judicial Review, Local Values, And Pluralism. (Twenty-Seventh Annual National Federalist Society Student Symposium)
- Author : Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 282 KB
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I. "It is," the Twenty-Seventh Annual National Federalist Society Student Symposium program reports, "a basic assumption of federalism that individual communities can be different; they may have different values, and they will certainly have different laws." (1) This is true. Notwithstanding American Idol, Starbucks, USA Today, and chain restaurants, individual communities not only can be different, they are different. They often sit on opposite sides of what commentator David Brooks has called the "meatloaf line," which divides places with "sun-dried-tomato concoctions on restaurant menus" from those with "meatloaf platters." (2) Even before the 2000 election, and the explosion of "Red-versus-Blue"-themed social commentary, (3) it should not have been controversial to note that the communities of San Francisco and Provo "have different values"--not entirely different, of course, but still different. And, if the legal enterprise involves, among other things, an effort to order our lives together in a way that reflects and promotes our understandings of human flourishing, then we should not be surprised that communities' "different values" often translate into "different laws."