Articles tagged as Executive Branch
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“‘It’s Good (Not) to be the King’: Qualified Praise for Michael McConnell” — Garrett Snedeker
Anchoring Truths co-founder Garrett Snedeker offers qualified praise for Prof. Michael McConnell’s recent book on executive power under the Constitution. While McConnell argues convincingly for public meaning originalism, he implicitly reaffirms judicial supremacy over interpretive disputes between the legislative and the executive branches. “McConnell’s most significant contribution to the scholarly literature is his thorough evaluation of Article II with a […] -
The American Regime and Its Moral Ground: Hadley Arkes at Real Clear Public Affairs
In an essay for the 1776 Series at Real Clear Public Affairs, JWI Founder and Director Hadley Arkes discusses the moral axioms that pre-existed the Constitution as understood by President Abraham Lincoln. Prof. Arkes retells Lincoln’s teaching that the Constitution was made for the Union, and not the Union for the Constitution, which shows the […] -
JWI Webinar with Michael Maibach: “The Electoral College & Our Nation of States”
On November 19, the James Wilson Institute hosted a webinar with Michael Maibach, an expert on the Electoral College. Michael Maibach is a Distinguished Fellow for Save Our States where he manages outreach to academics, policy professionals, and allied organizations. Mr. Maibach is also JWI’s Managing Director and a member of the JWI Board of […] -
“The Lincoln Proposal”: Foster, Pecknold, and Craddock in Public Discourse
In this piece, Catherine Glenn Foster (James Wilson Fellow 2016), Chad Pecknold, and Josh Craddock (James Wilson Fellow 2019) explore a way in which a pro-life president could protect the right to life of prenatal persons through an executive order. The executive branch – being co-equal to the legislative and judicial branches – also has […] -
“Vermeule, His Critics, and the Crisis of Originalism”: Prof. Hadley Arkes in The American Mind
In an in-depth essay part of a symposium for The American Mind, James Wilson Institute founder and director Professor Hadley Arkes offers measured praise of Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule for his criticism of Originalism in The Atlantic. Professor Arkes argues that Professor Vermeule, in his promotion of a “Common Good Constitutionalism,” draws on 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, […] -
“Putting The ‘Big’ In Big Government” – Prof. Michael Uhlmann in The Claremont Review of Books
In a piece for the Claremont Review of Books, JWI Senior Scholar Prof. Michael Uhlmann reviews Prof. Joseph Postell’s Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State’s Challenge to Constitutional Government. Prof. Uhlmann articulates the reasons for the intellectual, legal, and political development of the administrative state. Some Excerpts: “By allowing agency rules to have binding effect […] -
“The Ninth Circuit’s Astounding Reasoning” –Garrett Snedeker in the Library of Law and Liberty
In his piece, “The Ninth Circuit’s Astounding Reasoning,” Garrett Snedeker discusses the complicated state of affairs as the Ninth Circuit has challenged the authority of President Trump’s executive order to temporarily restrict entry of immigrants from certain high-risk countries. Mr. Snedeker analyzes this controversy in light of two different SCOTUS opinions written by Justice George […] -
“Can the Political Branches Counter the Courts on Marriage and Abortion?: Teaching Conservatives Again What They Once Used To Know”–Prof. Hadley Arkes at the Thomas More Society of America, D.C. Chapter
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“Lessons of Nixon’s Departure”– Prof. Hadley Arkes in National Review Online
Writing in National Review Online, Prof. Hadley Arkes discusses the question "did the Nixon scandal and his impeachment really vindicate 'the rule of law'?"