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The third pillar of a decent society is a just system of politics and law. Such a government does not bind all persons, families, institutions of civil society, and actors in the marketplace to itself as subservient features of an all-pervading authority. Instead, it honors and protects the inherent equal dignity of all persons, safeguards the family as the primary school of virtue, and seeks justice through the rule of law.

A Conversation on Genesis 1 and America’s Founding 

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A Conversation on Genesis 1 and America’s Founding 

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As our founders pointed out, if we are not a virtuous people, we’ll not be able to sustain the republican civic order that they bequeathed to us. That order itself depends on at least a significant amount of virtue in the people. That’s why Adams made that statement I quoted earlier, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
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The Bookshelf: Equal Citizenship 

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For students of American law and history, Born Equal is required reading.
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Executions Should Not Be Livestreamed

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Execution is a matter that must be approached with sober rationality, charity, and solemnity. But online culture instead fosters emotionalism, hatred, and frivolity, and livestreaming executions would put them at the center of this toxic culture.
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Originalism or Conservatism? 

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At a time when political wisdom seems in desperately short supply, is the revolutionary imposition of a controversial theory the prudent course?   
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Ireland’s Missing Check on the Law 

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Good law requires more than popular approval. It needs an objective standard to measure it against and a legislature that asks whether it will work in practice. Ireland has abandoned both, leaving it to agencies and courts to decide, case by case, what its laws mean. 
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What Can ICE Learn from the Byzantine Migration Enforcement?  

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To what extent can migration be legitimately regulated and enforced, and under what circumstances may migrants already residing within a country be returned to their place of origin? 
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Two Trump VPs, Two Visions 

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What we need is not more polarization, but more earnest engagement.   
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The Friendship That Changed International Religious Freedom for America and the World 

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A friendship begun in 1985, forged in shared Christian faith and encounters with human misery driven by animus toward religion, would become the ground on which a historic legacy would be built.
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Postliberalism’s Rebellion Against Reality 

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It is good to oppose communism. It is not good to oppose communism out of support for clerical fascism. 
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Why China Will Never Democratize 

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China’s rise forces scholars and policymakers to confront an uncomfortable reality: that modernity no longer belongs to the West.
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Libel and Law-Office History 

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American self-government has not benefited from two generations of the Sullivan standard. 
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A Democrat’s Ideological Journey on Abortion 

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So long as the pro-life movement is part of the GOP coalition, the attractiveness of the pro-life message is affected by the attractiveness of the GOP. And it’s hard to grow the pro-life tent if the pro-life movement is bound up with a hard-right GOP that is repellent to centrist and center-left voters. 
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The American Pope and the American Constitution 

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In his day, Brownson advocated for a “long-term, multi-pronged rediscovery of the true Constitution,” an ordered liberty founded on a balance of unity in diversity based on natural law and the pursuit of the common good. He challenges us to “rediscover the true Constitution.” Now would be an appropriate time to follow his advice. 
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Common Sense Wins the Day in West Virginia v. B. P. J.

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The Court did not prescribe that states limit girls’ and women’s sports to the female sex. It merely held that states that did draw that line did not run afoul of Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause. For now, though, for girls like Adaleia Cross and for all friends of reason and common sense, the Supreme Court’s decision to call a spade a spade and sex sex is most welcome. 
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Originalism and Judicial Decadence 

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With the current Second Amendment jurisprudence, its practitioners on the Court have utterly lost their way.  
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Constitutional Parental Rights: No “Substantive Due Process” Required 

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Indeed, because our Constitution recognizes the right of both mother and father to the custody of their joint offspring, that Constitution surely permits—if not requires—all the states of our Union to publicly favor, once again, the lifelong “union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.” 
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Attorney General as State Theologian: Florida’s Vaccine Mandate and the Freedom of the Church 

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If the Florida bishops determine that immunizing their students is required for the common good, then their policy of mandatory vaccinations is, contra the Florida AG, supported by Catholic teaching.
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Unaccountable Commissions or All-Powerful Kings? 

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There’s a way between the rule of an unaccountable bureaucracy and the reign of a king: constitutional government.
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Look Here! Attention and the Law 

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What steals our attention shapes our lives. 
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Who Will Fight for “Evil”?  

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Human Dignity without Metaphysics? 

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A culture that continually invokes dignity while refusing to discuss its foundations may discover that the concept gradually loses its internal coherence. If man possesses a unique and inviolable worth, then reality itself must contain some explanation for that fact. 
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Eleven Years After Obergefell, Who Will Speak for the Children? 

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The work, eleven years in, begins with honesty; the admission that Obergefell was not a neutral expansion of rights but a substitution of one set of duties for another, and that the duties it displaced were owed chiefly to children
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America’s Two Constitutions  

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Reflections on the nature of the American experiment in ordered liberty 
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Immigration and the Declaration at 250  

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It is in accepting the poor and the wretched refuse that the greatness and promise of America are to be found.

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