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Judicial Conscience And Natural Rights: A Reply To Professor Ledewitz, Harry V. Jaffa
Judicial Conscience And Natural Rights: A Reply To Professor Ledewitz, Harry V. Jaffa
Seattle University Law Review
In our Spring 1987 issue, Professor Jaffa authored an essay in which he posited that the fundamental principles of equality and other tenets of natural law expressed in the Declaration of Independence were originally intended to be the principles of the Constitution of 1787 Professor Jaffa asserted that while the Framers believed in the "law of nature and nature's God," many contemporary constitutional thinkers, including fellow conservatives Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Attorney General Edwin Meese, do not. Thus, Jaffa argued, those conservatives "who today most aggressively appeal to the doctrine of original intent are among its most resolute antagonists." …
Book Review: Zechariah Chafee, Jr., Defender Of Liberty And Law By Donald L. Smith, Lynne Wilson
Book Review: Zechariah Chafee, Jr., Defender Of Liberty And Law By Donald L. Smith, Lynne Wilson
Seattle University Law Review
This review's purpose is to fill the void in Professor Smith's book by proposing that the central problem with Chafee's free speech ideas, and perhaps one problem with the "clear and present danger" test itself, lies in Chafee's reliance on common law and equity balancing concepts, rather than political theory.