Defining Life, Defining Law

By |2024-03-08T09:30:37-06:00August 20th, 2023|Categories: Abortion, Christianity, Communio, Constitution, Rule of Law, Supreme Court|

When the law reckons with the matter of life, it inevitably reckons with its own foundation and its own essence. When we attempt to define life in law, in other words, we are necessarily, though implicitly, defining law in an analogous sense at the same time. The background assumption of my brief essay is that [...]

Why Our Legal System Is Failing Us

By |2023-06-09T16:43:29-05:00June 6th, 2023|Categories: Bruce Frohnen, Culture, Ethics, Featured, Justice, Politics, Rule of Law, Timeless Essays|

The slow disintegration of our legal system will continue apace until and unless judges, in particular, cease acting as if the legal system they serve either does not need or does not deserve their active support. Americans’ attitudes toward lawyers and the legal system are filled with ironies. We complain that lawyers are money-grubbing sophists [...]

The Limits of Liberty

By |2023-01-22T21:00:13-06:00January 22nd, 2023|Categories: Bruce Frohnen, Civil Society, Freedom, Government, Liberty, Rule of Law, Senior Contributors, Social Order, Timeless Essays|

While the rule of law is an essential public good, the actual number and extent of laws also are important factors in determining whether there will be liberty—and, indeed, the rule of law itself. Moreover, as too much law undermines freedom and its own proper character, it also tears apart the very fabric of the [...]

Martin Luther King & the Rule of Law

By |2023-01-16T09:38:34-06:00January 15th, 2023|Categories: Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Featured, John Creech, Martin Luther King Jr., Natural Law, Rule of Law, Timeless Essays|

In acknowledgement of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I wish to raise the question, based on Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” as to when, if ever, as well as to what extent, it is appropriate to defy the rule of law. On The Imaginative Conservative Winston Elliott raised the question “When is a Change [...]

The Supreme Court, Religious Freedom, & Everyday Fairness

By |2022-05-16T10:42:46-05:00May 15th, 2022|Categories: Freedom of Religion, Rule of Law, Senior Contributors, Supreme Court|

The Supreme Court's unanimous decision in the case of Shurtleff v. Boston is in line with the Court’s other recent rulings overturning attempts by state and local government to restrict religious freedom. In Boston, a gay pride flag was allowed to be run up the flagpole of city hall, but the flag of a Christian [...]

Race, Reparations, and the Courts

By |2021-06-18T15:15:25-05:00June 20th, 2021|Categories: Equality, Rule of Law, Supreme Court, Thomas R. Ascik|

The principal basis of the reparations, systemic racism, and Black Lives Matter policy agenda has been the planned and deliberate ignoring of the federal constitution (“any person”) and federal civil rights laws (“no person”), both of which create and guarantee the rights of individuals against racial discrimination by private and public institutions and programs. Now, [...]

Bureaucracy of, by, and for the Smug

By |2021-03-22T14:33:27-05:00March 21st, 2021|Categories: Books, Bruce Frohnen, Rule of Law, Senior Contributors|

If anything saves our constitutional republic at this stage it will be Americans’ sheer unruliness, our unwillingness to sit still and be told what to do by people convinced that their scores on entrance exams (or, perhaps, on the squash court) entitle them to organize our lives for us. Law & Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative [...]

Can Cities Be Held Liable for the Riots?

By |2020-11-27T21:52:06-06:00September 7th, 2020|Categories: Civil Society, Rule of Law|

Can the residents of Seattle whose property and businesses were destroyed, vandalized, or shut down in June, when the city for three weeks allowed and approved of the “autonomous zone,” now sue the city? Two such lawsuits have in fact already been filed in federal court; and in one of them, seventeen different persons and [...]

Instant Justice Is No Justice

By |2020-08-30T16:18:23-05:00August 30th, 2020|Categories: Civil Society, David Deavel, Rule of Law|

Until our elected officials, media, and “activists” stop rendering sentences on the basis of assumed verdicts garnered from piecing together a few time-bound, one-sided video clips and a truckload of assumptions about a “racist” or “white supremacist” country, we will not wake up from an increasingly horrific national nightmare for Americans of every race, creed, [...]

Assaulted and Vilified, the Police Save the Cities

By |2020-06-09T09:19:00-05:00June 2nd, 2020|Categories: Civil Society, Pat Buchanan, Rule of Law|

When rioting, looting, and arson erupted, and attacks on police began, the liberal leadership of America's cities and states sat morally and politically paralyzed. Liberals may equate the term "law and order" with racism, but without law and order, there is no justice and no peace. On the fifth night of rioting, looting and arson [...]

Asylum, the “Right” of Immigration, & the Rule of Law

By |2019-09-12T11:28:22-05:00March 28th, 2019|Categories: Immigration, Politics, Rule of Law, Senior Contributors, Thomas R. Ascik|

Presidents of both parties, and houses of Congress controlled by both parties, have for decades tolerated and thus implicitly encouraged and provided an incentive for illegal immigration. What has been sacrificed along the way is the rule of law. Will the federal judiciary not only change central provisions of American immigration statutory law pertaining to [...]

Our Own American Genocide: “Gosnell,” the Movie

By |2018-10-22T21:33:49-05:00October 22nd, 2018|Categories: Abortion, Dwight Longenecker, Film, Rule of Law|

While Gosnell tells the true story of a squalid, back-street abortion mill, we are also reminded by the film that the majority of baby murders are committed legally by nice, middle-class people who are well-connected, well-off, well-educated, well-spoken, and well-funded... A friend once commented about Christian films, “For ‘Christian’ read ‘inferior’.” His critique was all [...]

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