Dec 30 2016 Blog Post News When Enforcing the Constitution Means Rejecting Precedent: A Reply to Greg Weiner Evan D. Bernick Part bull, part man, and nourished by Athenian blood, the minotaur has been the stuff...
Sep 21 2021 Video Event Videos Reasoned Argument Book Club: Declaration-related Rhetoric [Session 5] John S. Baker Declaration-related Rhetoric Session 5 Reading:Thomas Paine, Common Sense (January 1775) (Summary) versusJohn Adams, Thoughts on Government (April 1776);Patrick Henry, “Give...
Sep 28 2021 Video Event Videos Reasoned Argument Book Club: Rights, Ratification, and Revolution [Session 6] John S. Baker Rights, Ratification, and Revolution REASONED ARGUMENT: THE COUNTER TO CANCEL CULTURE American Argument Prior to, During, and Following theFederalist-Antifederalist...
Oct 5 2021 Video Event Videos Reasoned Argument Book Club: Washington’s Presidency [Session 7] John S. Baker Washington’s Presidency Session 7 Readings:Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) versus Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1791)The Ethics of Rhetoric,...
Oct 12 2021 Video Event Videos Reasoned Argument Book Club: Adams versus Jefferson and Madison [Session 8] John S. Baker John Adams and the Alien and Sedition Acts versus Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions (1798). Session 8 Readings:The Alien and Sedition ActsVirginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798)Novus Ordo Seclorum, Ch. 4,...
Oct 19 2021 Video Event Videos Reasoned Argument Book Club: After the War of 1812 to 1850 [Session 9] John S. Baker After the War of 1812 to 1850 Session 9 Reading:Great orators dominate Congress: Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. CalhounNovus Ordo...
Oct 26 2021 Video Event Videos Reasoned Argument Book Club: The Nullification Crisis [Session 10] John S. Baker The Nullification Crisis Session 10 Readings:Our Republican Constitution by Prof. Randy E. Barnett, Ch. 4Excerpts from Webster and Calhoun,...
Nov 2 2021 Video Event Videos Reasoned Argument Book Club: The Abolition Movement [Session 11] John S. Baker The Abolition Movement Session 11 Readings:Frederick Douglass and the United States Constitution by Noelle TrentAbraham Lincoln's Lyceum AddressThe Ethics of...
Oct 29 2018 Publication Federalist Society Review Giving Credit for Shaping the Constitution Karen J. Lugo Federalist Society Review, Volume 19 A review of: The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds That Shaped America’s Supreme Law,...
Dec 13 2021 Video Event Videos Showcase Panel II: Private Control Over Public Discussion Jane Bambauer, Randy E. Barnett, Adam Candeub, Barbara Lagoa, Eugene Volokh 2021 National Lawyers Convention The 2021 National Lawyers Convention took place November 11-13, 2021 at the Mayflower Hotel in...
When Enforcing the Constitution Means Rejecting Precedent: A Reply to Greg Weiner
Part bull, part man, and nourished by Athenian blood, the minotaur has been the stuff...
Reasoned Argument Book Club: Declaration-related Rhetoric [Session 5]
John S. Baker
Declaration-related Rhetoric
Session 5 Reading:Thomas Paine, Common Sense (January 1775) (Summary) versusJohn Adams, Thoughts on Government (April 1776);Patrick Henry, “Give...
Reasoned Argument Book Club: Rights, Ratification, and Revolution [Session 6]
John S. Baker
Rights, Ratification, and Revolution
REASONED ARGUMENT: THE COUNTER TO CANCEL CULTURE American Argument Prior to, During, and Following theFederalist-Antifederalist...
Reasoned Argument Book Club: Washington’s Presidency [Session 7]
John S. Baker
Washington’s Presidency
Session 7 Readings:Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) versus Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1791)The Ethics of Rhetoric,...
Reasoned Argument Book Club: Adams versus Jefferson and Madison [Session 8]
John S. Baker
John Adams and the Alien and Sedition Acts versus Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions (1798).
Session 8 Readings:The Alien and Sedition ActsVirginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798)Novus Ordo Seclorum, Ch. 4,...
Reasoned Argument Book Club: After the War of 1812 to 1850 [Session 9]
John S. Baker
After the War of 1812 to 1850
Session 9 Reading:Great orators dominate Congress: Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. CalhounNovus Ordo...
Reasoned Argument Book Club: The Nullification Crisis [Session 10]
John S. Baker
The Nullification Crisis
Session 10 Readings:Our Republican Constitution by Prof. Randy E. Barnett, Ch. 4Excerpts from Webster and Calhoun,...
Reasoned Argument Book Club: The Abolition Movement [Session 11]
John S. Baker
The Abolition Movement
Session 11 Readings:Frederick Douglass and the United States Constitution by Noelle TrentAbraham Lincoln's Lyceum AddressThe Ethics of...
Giving Credit for Shaping the Constitution
Karen J. Lugo
Federalist Society Review, Volume 19
A review of: The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds That Shaped America’s Supreme Law,...
Showcase Panel II: Private Control Over Public Discussion
Jane Bambauer, Randy E. Barnett, Adam Candeub, Barbara Lagoa, Eugene Volokh
2021 National Lawyers Convention
The 2021 National Lawyers Convention took place November 11-13, 2021 at the Mayflower Hotel in...