{"id":883,"date":"2008-08-10T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/10\/democracy-isn%e2%80%99t-about-making-law\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T21:56:12","slug":"democracy-isn%e2%80%99t-about-making-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/democracy-isn%e2%80%99t-about-making-law\/","title":{"rendered":"democracy isn\u2019t about making law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/posner-on-faith-based-morality.pdf\" title=\"Posner on Faith Based Morality and Public Policy\">Posner on Faith Based Morality and Public Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span face=\"Century Schoolbook\">&#8220;Modern representative democracy isn\u2019t about making law the outcome of discussion. It is not about modeling politics on the academic seminar. It is about forcing officials to stand for election at short intervals, and about letting ordinary people express their political preferences without having to defend them in debate with their intellectual superiors.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/leiterreports.typepad.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/faithbased_mora.html\">Link<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posner on Faith Based Morality and Public Policy &#8220;Modern representative democracy isn\u2019t about making law the outcome of discussion. It is not about modeling politics on the academic seminar. It is about forcing officials to stand for election at short intervals, and about letting ordinary people express their political preferences without having to defend them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}