If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions. — Abraham Lincoln, Speech at…

Last summer, in Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy declared homosexual sodomy to be a liberty protected by the Due Process Clause. By the end of the year, other judges in lower courts relied on his opinion to…