Justice Anthony Kennedy worries about moral relativism
On Wednesday night, Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the deciding vote on the Supreme Court, delivered a lecture at The Heritage Foundation on the beauty of the Constitution—every Supreme Court justice’s favorite topic. In the course of the discussion he dropped asides about the dearth of civic knowledge among Americans, the danger of moral relativism, and the degradation of the political sphere since America’s founding.
Kennedy dwelled on the wonder of the 1787 Philadelphia convention that created the Constitution.
“Statesmen—and there were statesmen in those days—kept their word,” he said. “There was never a golden age of political debate. It was always rancorous … but we must pay more attention to making it more principled, thoughtful, decent.”...