The American Regime and Its Moral Ground
Hadley Arkes traces the moral ground of the American Regime to the Declaration of Independence’s conception of natural law, which frames rights in the context of an enduring human nature.
Abraham Lincoln
Should the Declaration Inform the Constitution?: Hadley Arkes and Lee Strang Debate Transcript
JWI Founder and Director Hadley Arkes and Toledo Law School Professor Lee Strang debate whether or not originalism should utilize the natural law substance of the Declaration of Independence to answer constitutional law questions.
PODCAST: Josh Hammer on Common Good Constitutionalism and Judicial Supremacy
Lawyer and legal commentator Josh Hammer joined JWI Deputy Director Garrett Snedeker and intern Joe Egler for a podcast recording to discuss the future of originalism in the conservative legal movement, Prof. Adrian Vermeule’s “common good constitutionalism,” and judicial supremacy. Josh Hammer is a nationally syndicated columnist and Of Counsel with First Liberty Institute. A …
PODCAST: 1619 Project and its Challenge to the American Founding–with Prof. Lucas Morel
Professor and renowned Lincoln scholar Lucas Morel joined JWI deputy director Garrett Snedeker and intern Jovan Tripkovic to discuss his take on the New York Times 1619 project, identity politics, revisionist history on the American Founding, the 1776 Commission, as well as Professor Morel’s latest book Lincoln and the American Founding. Lucas Morel is Professor of …
