View Attributions and the Full Transcript “Obviously people can say what they want. And they’re certainly free to criticize theSupreme Court. And if they want to say that its legitimacy is in question they’re free todo so but I don’t understand the connection between opinions that people disagreewith and the legitimacy of the Court.” John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States SupremeCourt The Declaration of Independence incorporated a doctrine first articulated as “the consent ofthe governed” by John Duns Scotus in his Lectura and Ordinatio of the 1290s. That phrasing,adopted unanimously by the 56 delegates to the Second Continental […]