Articles tagged as constitutional convention
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“Toward a New Jurisprudential Consensus: Common Good Originalism” – Josh Hammer in Public Discourse
In an essay for Public Discourse, JWI Affiliated Scholar Josh Hammer implores conservatives to embrace a new approach to originalism that emphasizes the common good. He argues that originalism has become entirely unmoored from conservatism rightly understood, particularly in light of Justice Gorsuch’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County. It must be replaced by a […] -
“Symposium: The Life and Career of James Wilson” — Reflections on James Wilson from the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy
In their Winter 2019 edition, the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy published a series of works as part of their symposium on the life and career of Justice James Wilson. William Ewald in his piece “James Wilson and the American Founding” reflected upon Wilson’s early life, his work with the Declaration of Independence, […]