American Heresy
The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. … They sought to protect Americans in…
The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. ... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
When the Bill of Rights was being crafted in the House of Representatives, it was left to James Madison to articulate the values that would provide an insulation between government negating freedom and. . .
The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. … They sought to protect Americans in…
Is personal freedom a reality or a myth? Does the government execute the will of the governed or the will of those…
“That God, which ever lives and loves,One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine eventTo which the whole creation moves.” –…
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Legal scholars have many lenses through which to examine the Constitution. Lawyers need to master about 150 Supreme Court decisions in order to have…
Last week, a half-dozen masked and unidentifiable Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents killed a 37-year-old federal employee, a nurse, by spraying pepper spray into his eyes,…
In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas More, More argues with…