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Allen Guelzo is a professor of history and director of the Civil War Era Studies Program at Gettysburg College and is the author of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (Simon and Schuster, 2004).

March 14, 2018|Abraham Lincoln, David Waldstreicher, Originalism, Paul Finkelman, Slavery

The Constitution: A Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery Document?

by Allen Guelzo|17 Comments

The U.S. Constitution (Derek Hatfield / Shutterstock.com)

The most telling evidence in the debate over slavery in the Constitution is how the pro-slavery forces responded to Lincoln's election.

Revisiting De Jouvenel’s Ethics of Redistribution: Seventy Years On

by Garreth Bloor

De Jouvenel’s interest is always to ensure open access to the market, an institution that engenders virtue—without exalting it above human flourishing.

Competing Conceptions of Union and Ordered Liberty in The Webster-Hayne Debate

by Aaron N. Coleman

The debate reveals two incompatible visions of American constitutionalism and ordered liberty that are vital to understand today.

Fear God. Honor the Emperor. A Conversation with Robert Louis Wilken

A discussion with Robert Louis Wilken

Robert Louis Wilken discusses his new book Liberty in the Things of God.

The Economic Nationalism Agenda: A Conversation with Daniel McCarthy

A discussion with Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy makes the case for a new conservative agenda rooted in an aggressive industrial policy.

Decentralization and the Common Good: A Conversation with Andy Smarick

A discussion with Andy Smarick

Andy Smarick discusses Hayek, subsidiarity, and the principles of authentic decentralization.

Lord Liverpool & the British Tradition of Strategic Independence: A Conversation with William Anthony Hay

A discussion with William Anthony Hay

William Anthony Hay talks about Lord Liverpool's excellent statesmanship.

Everybody Counts or Nobody Does

Bosch's manliness and stoic sense of duty combine with the absence of faith to make him serve those who need him without hoping for a just order.
by Titus Techera
Good Riddance to Cultural Christianity

The problem with the Christian Right is not that it’s too Christian, but rather that it’s not Christian enough.
by James R. Rogers
Justice Kagan Recognizes Legal Meaning as the Proper Object of Interpretation

Justice Kagan often asks just the right question in statutory construction cases, and she should carry her logic over to constitutional questions as well.
by John O. McGinnis
Paul Hollander, In Memoriam

Fascinated by the Western intellectuals’ fascination with communism, Hollander was able to explain it to us.
by Lee Edwards
Fukuyama’s Hollow Nation-State

There is no guarantee that science, technology, liberal democracy, commercial greatness, or military strength will go on much longer in a liberal regime.
by Scott Yenor

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