> If a judge could just decide whether a law was good or not solely based on their beliefs and judgments, you are basically having a philosopher king who rules

> If a judge could just decide whether a law was good or not solely based on their beliefs and judgments, you are basically having a philosopher king who rules solely based on his wisdom. I mean, it doesn’t sound great, but I’ll take the “wisdom” of a group of people who are aware of a couple centuries worth of context over the “wisdom” of a group of people without that awareness.