Articles tagged as Abraham Lincoln
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“‘Unalienable Rights’ Made America Great”: Josh Craddock in Newsweek
JWI Affiliated Scholar Josh Craddock lauded the recent draft report of the State Department’s Commission on Human Rights in a new article for Newsweek. He broke down the distinction between the American tradition of natural rights and the progressive preoccupation with pragmatic positive rights. Craddock roots the American rights tradition in the Declaration of Independence […] -
“Conservative Jurisprudence Without Truth”: Prof. Hadley Arkes in First Things
In First Things, JWI founder and director Prof. Hadley Arkes criticizes conservative commentators who have taken greater issue with the legal methodology in Justice Neil Gorsuch’s Bostock v. Clayton County opinion than with the fundamental moral claims the decision makes. At the core of the opinion, Prof. Arkes claims, is a fundamental rejection of human […] -
LISTEN: Prof. Hadley Arkes on Racial Protests, Riots, and Social Justice on the Issues, etc. Podcast
On July 7th, JWI founder and director Prof. Hadley Arkes sat down with Lutheran Radio’s Issues, etc. Podcast to discuss the Black Lives Matter protests, incendiary riots, and the nation’s complicated history with slavery. Prof. Arkes offers insight into the views of the founders and the people of the early United States with regard to slavery. […] -
“On the Monuments: May We Really Honor All of the Dead?”: Prof. Hadley Arkes in Newsweek
This article was originally published in Newsweek and may be accessed here. When General Ulysses S. Grant received General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox to arrange the surrender of his Army, Grant recalled their service together in the Mexican War, when Grant was a young officer. Grant was able to summon his sympathy for “the […] -
Lincoln and the Electric Cord of the Fourth of July: A Statement from Hadley Arkes, JWI Founder & Director
The Fourth of July comes this year when we are seeing a massive movement in the streets, professing to be “protests,” but seething with a rejection of the American Founding and our institutions. The fine points–if there are fine points–get lost, and what comes through is a hatred of America. We find “Juneteenth” offered now, not […] -
“Here’s The Only Path Open to Republicans After Neil Gorsuch’s Betrayal”: Prof. Hadley Arkes in The Federalist
In his latest article for The Federalist, Prof. Hadley Arkes calls on Republicans to look to Abraham Lincoln for a response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC. Following the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, Lincoln and congressional Republicans acknowledged that the Supreme Court had the authority to determine the […] -
“We Need to Reject Judicial Supremacy Now More Than Ever”: Garrett Snedeker and Josh Hammer in Newsweek
JWI Deputy Director Garrett Snedeker and affiliated scholar Josh Hammer published in Newsweek, arguing that the recent Supreme Court decision, Bostock V. Clayton County Georgia, shows just how mistaken a jurisprudence without natural law can be. They propose a restoration of what they call the “original understanding of constitutionality” as a conversation between all three […] -
“Nobody Expects the Originalist Inquisition”: Gunnar Gundersen in The American Mind
In a second response to the ongoing debate over originalism and the common good in The American Mind, James Wilson Institute affiliated attorney Gunnar Gundersen addresses the flurry of criticism he received on Twitter after he declared that “originalism has failed.” Responding to the defenders of originalism he calls the “originalist inquisition,” Gundersen expands his […] -
“An Oath Upon Oaths”: Prof. Hadley Arkes in The American Mind
James Wilson Institute director Prof. Hadley Arkes responds to a side conversation taking place in the broader discussion over Adrian Vermeule’s “common good constitutionalism” – the debate over one’s oath to the Constitution. Multiple commentators have argued that abandoning originalism leads judges to violate their oaths to uphold the Constitution. Prof. Arkes finds instead that […] -
“Don’t Trade Judicial Supremacy for Executive Supremacy”: Garrett Snedeker in The American Mind
In an essay for a symposium in The American Mind responding to Harvard Law professor Adrian Vermeule’s call for a “Common Good Constitutionalism,” James Wilson Institute deputy director Garrett Snedeker sympathizes with Vermeule’s call for a “reading of the Constitution that references moral judgements” but cautions against replacing our constitutional deference toward judicial supremacy with […]