James Madison

October 15, 2019|Aristotle, Brown v. Board of Education, James Madison, Liquidation, Living Constitutionalism, Obergefell v. Hodges, Originalism, Originalism's Promise, Progressivism, Roe v. Wade

Justifying Originalism

by Lee J. Strang|2 Comments

Originalism provides the surest way to access the Constitution's legal meaning and then to implement it over time.

October 7, 2019|Declaration of Independence, George Will, James Madison, Judicial Review, Natural Rights, Progressivism, Statecraft as Soulcraft, Whittaker Chambers, Woodrow Wilson

Progress of a Conservative

by Richard M. Reinsch II|4 Comments

George Will at CPAC 2014 (shutterstock.com)

“The Founders intended the Constitution to promote a way of life, and they understood that to promote a way of life is to promote a kind of person.”

June 14, 2019|Antonin Scalia, George Washington, James Madison, John Adams, Joseph Ellis, Robert Bork, Second Amendment, Thomas Jefferson

Joseph Ellis’s American Monologue

by Brian A. Smith|30 Comments

Junius Brutus Stearns, "Washington as Statesman at the Constitutional Convention," 1856 (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts).

In Joseph Ellis’ view, it’s just fine for us to love the Founders, but not for anyone to understand them in ways that might derail the march of progress.

May 27, 2019|Alexander Hamilton, Anthony Peacock, Charles Beard, James Madison, John Jay, Martin Diamond, Publius, The Federalist, Thucydides

Refreshing and Disturbing: Anthony Peacock on Thucydides and The Federalist

by Karl Walling|2 Comments

Peacock’s rediscovery of the lost Federalist is a much needed corrective to contemporary scholarship.

May 20, 2019|Dwight Eisenhower, James Madison, Land of Hope, Progressivism, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Wilfred McClay

McClay’s Master Work: A History for Citizens

by Ted McAllister|4 Comments

Finally, a narrative account of the United States for students that comprehends the flaws, but also the greatness, of a self-governing nation.

April 26, 2019|Article V, Howard Gillman, James Madison, Originalism, Progressivism

Originalism Protects the Timelessness of the Constitution

by John O. McGinnis|1 Comment

Photo by andrey_l (shutterstock.com)

Originalism was the way Constitutional law was done until the progressive era came up with the idea of the living constitution.

April 15, 2019|Christianity, James Madison, John Calvin, Liberty in the Things of God, Martin Luther, Reformation, Religious Freedom, Robert Louis Wilken, Rome, Tertullian, Thomas More

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

by Robert Louis Wilken|1 Comment

St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City.

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

March 29, 2019|Congress, executive branch, Federalist 51, James Madison, Veto

How to Rebalance Power Between Congress and the Executive Branch

by James R. Rogers|8 Comments

U.S. Capitol (Tono Balaguer/Shutterstock.com)

Congress faces an inherent collective action problem relative to the President, one that means legislators underinvest in the institution itself.

February 19, 2019|Alexander Hamilton, corruption, James Madison, National Bank, oligarchy

A Corrupt Republic? Hamilton, Madison, and the Rise of Oligarchy

by Tony Williams|1 Comment

Federal Hall on Wall Street, New York, New York (Image: oneinchpunch/shutterstock.com).

Jay Cost asks his readers to reconsider the ways that corruption all too easily flows from the federal government, in every era.

Reason and Rhetoric

by Mary P. Nichols

We must rediscover how Aristotle’s Rhetoric brings light into what Socrates saw as the political “cave.”

On Freedom, Paternalism, and Power

by Guido Pincione

Nudgers must then be endowed with significant interpretive leeway when it comes to setting priorities. Is this freedom?

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