{"id":1449,"date":"2004-10-07T21:02:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T05:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2011-03-31T12:11:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T20:11:26","slug":"popper-on-constitutional-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"Popper on constitutional law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=123705&#038;cid=10387902\">Trurl&#8217;s Machine explains<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Popper said that it is reasonable to assume that sooner or later some rotten scoundrels will gain power. It&#8217;s not important who they will be precisely, but whatever your politcal views might be you must agree that a likelihood of such event is rather high. So whatever law you want to have in you country, don&#8217;t ask yourself the question &#8220;how this law can be used in good hands&#8221;. Ask the question &#8220;how this law can be used when the filthiest, dirtest, stupidest bastards will rule my country (and sooner or later they probably will)&#8221;. Only the law that cannot be used to anything wrong EVEN by the most vicious ruler is truly good. .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Cited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.furl.net\/members\/akrowne\">Aaron<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.furl.net\/item.jsp?id=945497\">Krowne<\/a>.)<br \/>\nOver the years I have occasionally quoted the principle as &#8220;write your constitution as if your worst enemy were in power,&#8221; but without knowing where I picked it up.  Popper, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trurl&#8217;s Machine explains: .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Popper said that it is reasonable to assume that sooner or later some rotten scoundrels will gain power. It&#8217;s not important who they will be precisely, but whatever your politcal views might be you must agree &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}