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...exist unless a judge can enforce it. But enforcing a right means interpreting it, and exclusive power to interpret a concept as vague as natural law should not be given to the unelected branch of government. The job of protecting our nonconstitutional rights belongs to those who most directly "deriv((e)) their just powers from the consent of the governed," as the Declaration has it: elected officials...
...that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not deriv'd corruptly; and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer...
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