Content of my letter:Justice is the most excellent of moral virtues; “in things touching man, the chief of all is life, on which all other things depend.”2
- United States, The Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence, 23rd ed. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007), http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo85386, 1.
- St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica I-II q. 66 a. 4, trans. Dominicans of the English Province, 1947, https://isidore.co/aquinas/summa/FS/FS066.html#FSQ66A4THEP1. “Maximum autem in his quæ ad hominem pertinent, est vita, a qua omnia alia dependent.”
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Sounds like a Justice David Souter mindset. Low-tech in the extreme.
Regardless of his ideology (or lack thereof), that guy was just plain weird. Kind of like fellow New Englander Calvin Coolidge (who would be labeled autistic today).