Progressivism

Question 1

Underlying jurisprudence

Answer 1

Legal realism

Question 2

Law looks ____ to the good society

Answer 2

forward

Question 3

What does it put heavy emphasis on?

Answer 3

the efficient cause of law

Question 4

What should judges do based on progressivism?

Answer 4

Judges should hunch out the best way hard law can impose the most enlightened elitist values & moral propositions on the less enlightened masses thereby transforming mass culture

Question 5

What anthropological error does progressivism rest upon?

Answer 5

Existentialism

Question 6

What is existentialism?

Answer 6

existence determines essense

Question 7

Judge’s rudder?

Answer 7

her viscera or gut feelings about policy

Question 8

Ultimately based on:

Answer 8

emotional preferences unique to each person

Question 9

What does the consensus of society on these emotional preferences & value judgments provide?

Answer 9

Provides a subjective foundation for human law constantly in flux from a postmodern

Question 10

“We the ____”

Answer 10

“We the New People”