No surprise that liberals have found much to criticize in the somewhat confusing set of opinions from the high court. What's strange is the criticism coming from many conservatives. Their carping about the court magnifies other mistakes that prominent thinkers on the right make about the American political tradition. In doing so, they deprive themselves of the most powerful weapons in their arsenal against assaults from the left.
Many conservatives have no use for the Declaration of Independence.
In this view, natural law does not belong in serious discourse about constitutional interpretation. One can hardly find a clearer example of the judicial arrogance that conservatives have justifiably hated. The opinion was indeed a natural law-based opinion one that relies on the Florida s Constitution s Declaration of Rights, a statement of basic citizen rights based on an understanding of what is good for human nature. The Declaration of Rights begins with the belief that All political power is inherent in the people. Liberal reliance on higher laws that wipe out the results of elected legislatures has reaped victory after victory using this simple formula, including the shrinking of religious free exercise, the imposing of racial and sex quotas, the empowering of bureaucracies, and now the encouraging of post-election fraud.