The Party of Feelings wants an emotionally satisfying consequence. It looks for, or establishes, neighborhoods, communities, churches, schools and other organizations in which each person depends upon another, and greed or anxiety is assuaged essentially by imposing equal outcomes. The Party of Rules draws back from such a worldview. It sees the embrace of feeling and the arbitrary imposition of equal outcomes as fundamentally unfair, totalitarian and lacking in spiritual compassion. The honest methodology for the development of the fullness of humanity, says the Party of Rules, is, well, to post the rules and then assist each individual to develop strategies and strength to obey them.
Freedom exists only in a rule-based society.
For this reason, the legal system in the United States faces a crisis. But that was when the Party of Rules was dominant. Under the growing influence of the Party of Feelings, the common law was more and more abandoned in favor of the law of equity that is, fashioning a remedy for relief when, in the eyes of the judges, the law was inconsistent or deficient. But while the original courts of equity in England looked for cases where the law was inconsistent or deficient in its language, the new version of equity practiced in the United States looks for what seems inconsistent with the judge s feeling of what is fair. Thus the Constitution became a living document, meaning that it changed as the feelings of the U.S. Supreme Court justices changed.