Discussion on Covid Mandates

 The Covid mandates are a major issue for our study of Free Exercise. I enjoyed our brief class discussion of the mandates and religious liberty yesterday. Here is something I shared with my 1L Property class:

Whatever your views about the mandates, I hope that you will not become too used to having your life so heavily regulated by government for such a long period of time. It is like boiling a frog slowly; you get used to the warm water as the heat slowly increases and the next thing you know you are boiled alive. Here is something Jefferson wrote to Abigail Adams in 1787:

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere."

 And here is something Reagan said along the same lines:

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men [and women] were free.”