The Importance of Mutual Respect in Politics

The founders believed that people are going to differ about really important things is the fallen world as one of those basic presuppositions that undergirds politics that might work. The American system and the division of separation of powers and checks and balances not only across legislative versus executive versus judicial functions but frankly the 9th and 10th amendment self-consciously wanted to distinguish between what Washington could potentially tackle, he says.