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legislative compromise crafted by Congressman James Madison
that produces a result better than the anti-ecclesiasticism that
deformed even his Memorial and Remonstrance.
And today it's natural for us Brownsonians to be in favor of a kind
of judicial restraint that curbs enthusiastic natural-rights nationalism based on the presumption of liberty and leaves as much space
as possible for civic deliberation on issues as diverse as abortion
and the future of our entitlements. It's especially important in
defending the dialectic between universality and particularity that
is the genius, Brownson explains, of American federalism to create
a larger "safe space" for always-tentative legislative resolutions of
issues that should be illuminated by the whole of our providential
constitutionalism-and not by efforts at definitive resolution by
judges spinning high principles from the single word liberty in the
due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Let's conclude with what might seem to be a surprising bit of
praise of part of Justice Kennedy's opinion in Obergefell. According to Kennedy, marriage is a wondrous relational institution that
transforms the lonely individual in futile pursuit of happiness in
the direction of happiness itself through a loving and dignified
relational life, one that promises to stand the test of time, even
save us from much of the sting of death. Marriage tells a part of
the truth about who each of us is, which is not found in individualistic theory. We note Kennedy's seeming dissent from the libertarian proposition that the question of what marriage is can be
resolved by the theory of consent, contract, and property rights.
Marriage, from this view, is part of our providential constitution, and it owes something to both our republican and our
Christian inheritances. And marriage, from this providential view,
is demeaned and degraded when its content is determined by
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