RICHARD EPSTEIN: One Bill Of Rights is Enough. “In short, there is no way to translate Roosevelt’s–or Sunstein’s vision–into sustainable social practices. But that’s just what the First Bill of Rights can do with its bloodless protection of private property and freedom of contract, speech and religion. Now we can specify the correlative duties with precision: keep off the property of others, and don’t meddle in their agreements. Follow these rules and you can stimulate investment and reward hard labor. By keeping our aspirations modest, we can keep our achievements high–which is why we don’t want to undermine the first Bill of Rights by adopting the second.”
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