Dworkin’s Death Deprives Scalia of His Moral Foil
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Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Ronald Dworkin, who has died at age81, was the leading liberal constitutional theorist of his era.But that is not why his ideas are so important nor is it whyhistory will remember him.
Instead, Dworkin’s essential contribution applies equallyto American liberal and conservative legal thought:Constitutional decision-making rests on a bedrock of the judges’political morality -- and so do the rights we enjoy.