A believer in Malcolm’s “to doubt is to sustain,” I submit that the unelected Supreme Court, with all due respect, should not act like a Super Congress reviewing wholesale the work of the elected legislature and chief executive. On libel and the Anti-Cybercrime law (R.A. No. 10175), who was the proper party in an actual case or controversy to justify a pakyaw review by the unelected of the work of the elected?

Malcolm’s “to doubt is to sustain” is passe? And so is Holmes saying “general propositions do not decide concrete cases”?

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