Congress and Deliberation in the Age of Woodrow Wilson: An Elegy

May 1, 2013

Congress and Deliberation in the Age of Woodrow Wilson: An Elegy

by Greg Weiner / 1 Comment

Filed Under: Abraham Lincoln, Antifederalists, Congress, deliberative democracy, Executive Power, Federalist Papers, Lyceum Address, Progressivism, War Powers, Woodrow Wilson

Are we all Wilsonians now?

Neoconservatives, it should be said in fairness, brought the 28th President’s ideology through the front door in the plain light of day in the form of a moralized and expeditionary foreign policy. What …

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Congress, Heal Thyself

by Stephen F. Knott / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Congress, Executive Power, I.N.S. v. Chadha, Legislative veto, The Federalist, War on Terror
Has Congress Failed as an Institution?

by George Thomas / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Alexander Hamilton, Congress, Pacificus-Helvidius Essays, Presidency, The Federalist, Woodrow Wilson
Not Creeping but Galloping to Caesarism

by Greg Weiner / 3 Comments

Filed Under: Alexander Hamiltion, Congressional Power, Executive Power, James Madison, Neutrality Treaty, The Federalist
The Founders Were no Shrinking Violets in the Use of Presidential Power

by Stephen F. Knott / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Executive Power, George Washington, James Madison, national security law, Thomas Jefferson

What is Social Justice?

Apr 1, 2013

What is Social Justice?

by Samuel Gregg / 12 Comments

Filed Under: Aristotle, Common Good, Commutative Justice, Distributive Justice, Divini Redemptoris, Friedrich Hayek, General Justice, Social Justice, solidarity, The Mirage of Social Justice, Thomas Aquinas

Introduction

Few terms have assumed more prominence in public discourse, especially that emanating from the left, in recent decades than “social justice.” It has now become part of the rhetorical apparatus of virtually all center-left, social democratic and labor political …

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