James Wilson

Dec 2, 2012

Peeling Back the Common Law: Reflections Stirred by James Stoner on the Common Law

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by Hadley Arkes / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Common Law, Constitution, James Stoner, James Wilson, Natural Right, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Roe v. Wade, state debt, Thomas Reid's Active Powers of the Human Mind

We were not aware at the time that they were twilight years, that time just before Roe v. Wade was decided, when statutes on abortion were sustained in the courts and only occasionally struck down. That is in part why …

Feb 1, 2012

Hadley Arkes’ response to Michael Ramsey’s review of Constitutional Illusions & Anchoring Truths

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by Hadley Arkes / 5 Comments

Filed Under: Alexander Hamilton, Antonin Scalia, Bill of Rights, Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment, James Wilson, John Marshall, Moral Relativism, Natural Law, Originalism, Publius

I’m quite grateful to Michael Ramsey for his engagement with the arguments in my book, Constitutional Illusions & Anchoring Truths: The Touchstone of the Natural Law. I appreciate, of course, his praise of the parts that alone, he says, …