America\u2019s history of tolerance and accommodation, which the late Justice Ginsburg invoked at oral argument, reflected America\u2019s constitutional institutions. When legislators representing diverse people and values meet on equal footing to debate and deliberate, the product is informed by values of toleration. The legislative process\u2019s inherent tendency toward compromise and moderation is itself a crucial institution for the perpetuation of tolerance. But in dominance, intolerance.<\/p>\n
And when Americans see the lawmaking power as a weapon to be won in warlike presidential elections and then wielded against one\u2019s opponents for the four years that follow\u2014not the shared responsibility of legislators\u2014they too lose their capacity for tolerance and their memory of toleration.<\/p>\n
Rebuilding that capacity, and restoring that memory, requires a return to Madison\u2014not a \u201cMadison\u2019s Razor\u201d of Rakove\u2019s creation, but the genuinely republican constitutional institutions that Madison himself labored to help create, and the republican virtues that Madison knew undergirded those institutions.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a country governed primarily by uncompromising regulators who make law unilaterally, the recent rupture in Americans\u2019 views of religion and religious liberty has become much more ominous.<\/p>\n Read more from @adamjwhitedc<\/a> \u25b8 https:\/\/t.co\/cpFx3OmN01<\/a><\/p>\n #RFRA<\/a> #Tolerance<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/AhlgxVHV89<\/a><\/p>\n — Commentary Magazine (@Commentary) December 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n