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Free Exercise! Following Conscience, Developing Doctrine, And Opening Politics, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Free Exercise! Following Conscience, Developing Doctrine, And Opening Politics, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
An Essay On Christian Constitutionalism: Building In The Divine Style, For The Common Good(S), Patrick Mckinley Brennan
An Essay On Christian Constitutionalism: Building In The Divine Style, For The Common Good(S), Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
Theocracy is a matter of growing global concern and therefore of renewed academic interest. This paper answers the following question: "What would a Christian constitution, in a predominantly Christian nation, look like?" The paper was prepared for presentation as the Clark Lecture at Rutgers School of Law (Camden), where papers answering the same question with respect to Jewish and Islamic constitutions and cultures, respectively, were also presented. A Christian constitution would not have as its aim the comparatively anodyne -- and ultimately futile -- business of introducing more "Judeo-Christian values" into the life of the typical nation state. The paper …
Implementing Religious Law In Modern Nation-States: Reflections From The Catholic Tradition, Patrick Brennan
Implementing Religious Law In Modern Nation-States: Reflections From The Catholic Tradition, Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
This paper originated as an invited contribution to a symposium on "Implementing Religious Law in Contemporary Nation-States: Definitions and Challenges," sponsored by the Robbins Collection, Berkeley Hall, Boalt Hall, U.C. Berkeley, February 2014. The symposium by design brought papers speaking variously from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim perspectives into conversation. My paper proposes that the Catholic tradition of reflection on human lawmaking, even in modern nation-states, must take as its starting point the God who rules His rational creatures through higher or eternal law, where the rational creature’s participation in that higher law is what is known as the natural law. …
“The Pursuit Of Happiness” Comes Home To Roost? Same-Sex Union, The Summum Bonum, And Equality, Patrick Brennan
“The Pursuit Of Happiness” Comes Home To Roost? Same-Sex Union, The Summum Bonum, And Equality, Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
John Locke understood human happiness to amount to the removal of "uneasiness." This paper argues that,to the extent that the United States is a nation dedicated to "the pursuit of happiness" understood as the removal of "uneasiness," same-sex unions or marriages should be given legal recognition. While Locke defended a variation on traditional marriage on the grounds of progenitiveness and care for dependent offspring, his more foundational commitment to the importance of the removal of uneasiness precludes, on pain of inconsistency, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples. This paper argues, furthermore, that conservatives and neo-conservatives who celebrate this nation's being …
Subsidiarity In The Tradition Of Catholic Social Doctrine, Patrick Brennan
Subsidiarity In The Tradition Of Catholic Social Doctrine, Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
This chapter is an invited contribution to the first English-language comparative study of subsidiarity, M. Evans and A. Zimmerman (eds.), Subsidiarity in Comparative Perspective (forthcoming Springer, 2013). The concept of subsidiarity does work in many and varied legal contexts today, but the concept originated in Catholic social doctrine. The Catholic understanding of subsidiarity (or subsidiary function) is the subject of this chapter. Subsidiarity is often described as a norm calling for the devolution of power or for performing social functions at the lowest possible level. In Catholic social doctrine, it is neither. Subsidiarity is the fixed and immovable ontological principle …
The Mighty Work Of Making Nations Happy: A Response To James Davison Hunter, Patrick Brennan
The Mighty Work Of Making Nations Happy: A Response To James Davison Hunter, Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
This article is an invited response to James Davison Hunter’s much-discussed book To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2010). Hunter, a sociologist at UVA and a believing Protestant, claims that law’s capacity to contribute to social change is “mostly illusory” and that Christians, therefore, should practice “faithful presence” in the public square rather than seek to influence law directly. My response is that it is, in fact, law’s stunning ability to alter and limit available choices that makes it an object of deservedly fierce contest. The wild …
Legal Affinities: Explorations In The Legal Form Of Thought, Patrick Brennan
Legal Affinities: Explorations In The Legal Form Of Thought, Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
This is my Introduction to Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought (forthcoming 2012) (co-edited with H. Jefferson Powell and Jack Sammons), a volume of essays dedicated to exploring the work of Joseph Vining. The Introduction introduces Vining’s phenomenology of law and surveys the themes and topics developed by the volume’s eight authors: Joseph Vining, Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., Rev. John McCausland, H. Jefferson Powell, Jack Sammons, Steve Smith, James Boyd White, and Patrick Brennan.
The Mighty Work Of Making Nations Happy: A Response To James Davison Hunter, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
The Mighty Work Of Making Nations Happy: A Response To James Davison Hunter, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
This article is an invited response to James Davison Hunter’s much-discussed book To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2010). Hunter, a sociologist at UVA and a believing Protestant, claims that law’s capacity to contribute to social change is “mostly illusory” and that Christians, therefore, should practice “faithful presence” in the public square rather than seek to influence law directly. My response is that it is, in fact, law’s stunning ability to alter and limit available choices that makes it an object of deservedly fierce contest. The wild …
Two Cheers For The Constitution Of The United States: A Response To Professor Lee J. Strang, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Two Cheers For The Constitution Of The United States: A Response To Professor Lee J. Strang, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
The Liberty Of The Church: Source, Scope And Scandal, Patrick Brennan
The Liberty Of The Church: Source, Scope And Scandal, Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
This article was presented at a conference, and is part of a symposium, on "The Freedom of the Church in the Modern Era." The article argues that the liberty of the Church, libertas Ecclesiae, is not a mere metaphor, pace the views of some other contributions to the conference and symposium and of the mentality mostly prevailing over the last five hundred years. The argument is that the Church and her directly God-given rights are ontologically irreducible in a way that the rights of, say, the state of California or even of the United States are not. Based on a …
Resisting The Grand Coalition In Favor Of The Status Quo By Giving Full Scope To The Libertas Ecclesiae, Patrick Brennan
Resisting The Grand Coalition In Favor Of The Status Quo By Giving Full Scope To The Libertas Ecclesiae, Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
This paper argues that questions about "religious freedom" must be subordinated to the fundamental principle of the liberty of the Church, libertas Ecclesiae. The First Amendment's agnosticism with respect to the liberty of the Church is not ultimately normative. Catholics and others who merely seek religious "accommodation," as with the HHS mandate, for example, are agents of a status quo that illegitimately has comfortable self-preservation as its highest value. It is Catholic doctrine that "creation was for the sake of the Church," not for the sake of, say, religious freedom. The paper argues that the contingent constitution of …
Legal Affinities: Studies In The Legal Form Of Thought (Forthcoming), Patrick Brennan
Legal Affinities: Studies In The Legal Form Of Thought (Forthcoming), Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
Review Of Patrick J. Hayes, A Catholic Brain Trust: The History Of The Catholic Commission On Intellectual Affairs, 1945-1965 (University Of Notre Dame Press 2011), Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
Two Cheers For The Constitution Of The United States: A Response To Professor Lee J. Strang, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Two Cheers For The Constitution Of The United States: A Response To Professor Lee J. Strang, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
Review Of Christopher Cullen, Maritain And America (Catholic University Of America Press 2010), Patrick Brennan
Review Of Christopher Cullen, Maritain And America (Catholic University Of America Press 2010), Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
Are Legislation And Rules A Problem In Law? Thoughts On The Work Of Joseph Vining, Patrick Brennan
Are Legislation And Rules A Problem In Law? Thoughts On The Work Of Joseph Vining, Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
Written for a conference at Villanova Law School held to celebrate and explore the work of Joseph Vining over forty years, this paper considers the adequacy of Vining’s phenomenology of law. Specifically, it inquires into the accuracy of Vining’s startling claims that “legislation is a problem in law, not central to law” and “rules are nowhere to be found” in law. The argument of the paper is that when -- but only when -- law is understood to be an ordinance of reason in the mind of him or them who have care of the community, for the common good, …
Are Catholics Unreliable From A Democratic Point Of View? And What Does It Mean If They Are? Thoughts On The Occasion Of The Sixtieth Anniversary Of Paul Blanshard's American Freedom And Catholic Power, Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
From 1949 to 1950, Paul Blanshard’s American Freedom and Catholic Power dominated the New York Times best-seller list for eleven months, having captured the attention of American intelligentsia with its claim that “the Catholic problem is still with us” and its call for the formation of a “resistance movement.” Sixty years later, Blanshard’s bigotry is no longer defended in educated circles. Questions remain, though, concerning why Blanshard’s ideas made progress in some of the smartest American minds and throughout much of the culture. Was Blanshard onto something subversive about Catholics? Are Catholics’ commitments not compatible with the demands of American …
Joseph Vining's From Newton's Sleep, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Joseph Vining's From Newton's Sleep, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
The Individual Mandate, Sovereignty, And The Ends Of Good Government: A Reply To Professor Randy Barnett, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
The Individual Mandate, Sovereignty, And The Ends Of Good Government: A Reply To Professor Randy Barnett, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
Conscience And The Common Good: An Alternative Perspective, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Conscience And The Common Good: An Alternative Perspective, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
Delivering The Goods: Herein Of Mead, Delegations, And Authority, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Delivering The Goods: Herein Of Mead, Delegations, And Authority, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
This paper argues, first, that the natural law position, according to which it is the function of human law and political authorities to instantiate certain individual goods and the common good of the political community, does not entail judges' having the power or authority to speak the natural law directly. It goes on to argue, second, that lawmaking power/authority must be delegated by the people or their representatives. It then argues, third, that success in making law depends not just on the exercise of delegated power/authority, but also on the exercise of care and deliberation or, in the article's terms, …
Giving Effect To The Natural Law, Patrick Brennan
Giving Effect To The Natural Law, Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
Comments On Robert Vischer's Conscience And The Common Good: Reclaiming The Space Between Person And State (Invited), Patrick Brennan
Comments On Robert Vischer's Conscience And The Common Good: Reclaiming The Space Between Person And State (Invited), Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
Review Of Stephen M. Krason, The Public Order And The Sacred Order: Contemporary Issues, Catholic Social Thought, And The Western And American Legal Traditions (Scarecrow Press 2009) (Invited), Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Review Of Stephen M. Krason, The Public Order And The Sacred Order: Contemporary Issues, Catholic Social Thought, And The Western And American Legal Traditions (Scarecrow Press 2009) (Invited), Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
Bologna Revisited (First Things, August 2009), Patrick Brennan
Bologna Revisited (First Things, August 2009), Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
Forgiveness And Self-Love: A Holy Alliance?, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Forgiveness And Self-Love: A Holy Alliance?, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
Self- Love And Forgiveness: A Holy Alliance?, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Self- Love And Forgiveness: A Holy Alliance?, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
Equality, Conscience, And The Liberty Of The Church: Justifying The Controversiale Per Controversialius, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Equality, Conscience, And The Liberty Of The Church: Justifying The Controversiale Per Controversialius, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
This paper considers the central normative claim of Martha Nussbaum’s Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality, viz., that the U.S. Constitution’s religion clauses should be construed to provide equal (and extensive) protection to the vulnerable human faculty called conscience. The paper argues that Nussbaum’s argument from Rawlsian political liberalism that leads to her normative constitutional claim amounts, perversely, to an attempt to justify the controversial by the more controversial. The paper goes on to argue that while equality and conscience are concepts that are reasonably contested, Nussbaum illegitimately gives them priority over the also reasonably …
Delivering The Goods: Herein Of Delegation, Authority And The Mead Case, Patrick Brennan
Delivering The Goods: Herein Of Delegation, Authority And The Mead Case, Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
No abstract provided.
Differentiating Church And State (Without Losing The Church), Patrick Brennan
Differentiating Church And State (Without Losing The Church), Patrick Brennan
Patrick McKinley Brennan
There is an ongoing debate about whether the U.S. Constitution includes – or should be interpreted to include – a principle of “church autonomy.” Catholic doctrine and political theology, by contrast, clearly articulated a principle of ”libertas ecclesiae,” liberty of the church, when during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Church differentiated herself from the state. This article explores the meaning and origin of the doctrine of the libertas ecclesiae and the proper relationship among churches, civil society, and government. In doing so, it highlights the points at which church and state should cooperate and the points at which …