Opinion
KK Venugopal is right that this concept is open to varied interpretation. But isn’t that also true of ideas like liberty, equality, discrimination, dignity?
Attorney General of India KK Venugopal | Wikimedia commons
Gautam Bhatia
Dec 20, 2018
"The attorney general is right that the concept of constitutional morality is open to interpretation and different judges might understand it differently. However, the same could be said about many words and phrases familiar to us. Liberty, for example. Equality. Discrimination. Dignity. It is, therefore, a non-sequitur to argue, as the attorney general did, that because constitutional morality is open to interpretation, it is a dangerous weapon that should be discarded. The question rather is how we should understand – and defend – the meaning of this phrase."
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KK Venugopal is right that this concept is open to varied interpretation. But isn’t that also true of ideas like liberty, equality, discrimination, dignity?
Gautam Bhatia
Dec 20, 2018
"The attorney general is right that the concept of constitutional morality is open to interpretation and different judges might understand it differently. However, the same could be said about many words and phrases familiar to us. Liberty, for example. Equality. Discrimination. Dignity. It is, therefore, a non-sequitur to argue, as the attorney general did, that because constitutional morality is open to interpretation, it is a dangerous weapon that should be discarded. The question rather is how we should understand – and defend – the meaning of this phrase."
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