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 …