One of the "great first principles of the social compact" is that a legislature can not "take property from A and give it to B." So said the Supreme Court just after our nation was founded.
"It is against all reason and justice," the court said in 1798, "for a people to entrust a legislature with such powers; and, therefore, it cannot be presumed that they have done so."
Well, so much for that 200-year old presumption.
(See title link for complete Todd Gaziano/Paul Rosenzweig column.)
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