Law and Order
In a famous lecture, the eminent Princeton political philosopher Edward Corwin likened American Constitutional law to yin-yang—the opposite but complementary cosmic principles of passivity and activity, darkness and light, feminine and masculine—of ancient Chinese philosophy. For Corwin, “the ‘yang’ element of American Constitutional Law is Judicial Review, the power, and corresponding duty of a court to pass upon the validity of legislative acts in relation to a higher law which is regarded as being binding on both the legislature and the court. By the same token the ‘yin’ element is the higher law.”
