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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.

The Logos of Western Civilization: A Conversation with Sam Gregg

A discussion with Samuel Gregg

Sam Gregg explores how the West is built on the union of the God of the Philosophers and the God of the Bible.

The Politics of Judicial Review: A Conversation with Keith Whittington

A discussion with Keith Whittington

Keith Whittington discusses his reassessment of judicial review in his new book Repugnant Laws

Liberalism as Armed Doctrine: A Conversation with Philip Hamburger

A discussion with Philip Hamburger

Philip Hamburger joins us to discuss his new book Liberal Suppression

The Delusions of the Ideologue and the Wisdom of the Statesman: A Conversation with Greg Weiner

A discussion with Greg Weiner

Greg Weiner returns to Liberty Law Talk to discuss what it means to be an Old Whig.

Assessing the Faith-Friendly Colleges

Could it be that their purported improvement on this score is just more “bad religion” of the kind that Ross Douthat described?
by Joseph Knippenberg
Frederick Douglass’s “Plea for Freedom of Speech in Boston”

A man’s right to speak does not depend upon where he was born or upon his color. The simple quality of manhood is the solid basis of the right.
by Frederick Douglass, Kurt T. Lash
Best Boss Ever

Members of the Obama administration have put together a book of “deeply moving stories” that “show us how hope becomes real, sustainable change.”
by Charlotte Allen
To Hell and Back

In The Hell of Good Intentions, Stephen Walt tries to draw a false dichotomy between American security and liberal order.
by Paul D. Miller
Solidarity and Sentimentalism at the European Commission

What is “They deserve our solidarity,” uttered without any indication of what such solidarity actually entails, if not an empty, sentimental slogan?
by Theodore Dalrymple

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