Articles tagged as oaths

  • “An Oath Upon Oaths”: Prof. Hadley Arkes in The American Mind

    by James Wilson Institute on May 27, 2020
    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 […]