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December 29, 2019: Secular Responses To Anti-Semitic Violence, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2019

December 29, 2019: Secular Responses To Anti-Semitic Violence, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Secular Responses to anti-Semitic Violence“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


December 25, 2019: Christmas 2019, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2019

December 25, 2019: Christmas 2019, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Christmas 2019“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


December 22, 2019: Light In This Dark Season, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2019

December 22, 2019: Light In This Dark Season, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Light in this Dark Season“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


The Unwavering Movement: Integrating Reason Into British Penal Code 1730-1823, Rebecca M. Good Dec 2019

The Unwavering Movement: Integrating Reason Into British Penal Code 1730-1823, Rebecca M. Good

International ResearchScape Journal

Between the early 16th and 18th centuries, English attitude towards crime and correction were based on the strong held belief that faith and religion were the only cure to immorality. Lawmakers began to threaten citizens with capital punishment for menial crimes such as petty theft and begging. Resulting of a moral panic, lawmakers turned to the deterrence to dissuade citizens from partaking in criminal activity. The list of crimes punishable by death in England rose from 50 offenses in 1688 to over 220 in 1815. This article explains the origins of the Bloody Code and how Enlightenment-Era thought …


December 17, 2019: Today's Column On Hate Speech In The Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2019

December 17, 2019: Today's Column On Hate Speech In The Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Today's column on hate speech in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Think We’Re Powerless Against Hate Speech? The Constitution Provides Plenty Of Room To Address It, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2019

Think We’Re Powerless Against Hate Speech? The Constitution Provides Plenty Of Room To Address It, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.


December 7, 2019: Churchill Champions Free Trade And Castigates Republican Tariffs As Secular, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2019

December 7, 2019: Churchill Champions Free Trade And Castigates Republican Tariffs As Secular, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Churchill Champions Free Trade and Castigates Republican Tariffs as Secular“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


December 4, 2019: A Good Day For The Rule Of Law, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2019

December 4, 2019: A Good Day For The Rule Of Law, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “A Good Day for the Rule of Law“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Calif. Supreme Court Right To Strike Down Law Requiring Trump To Release Tax Returns To Get On The Ballot, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2019

Calif. Supreme Court Right To Strike Down Law Requiring Trump To Release Tax Returns To Get On The Ballot, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.


November 28, 2019: Happy Thanksgiving, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2019

November 28, 2019: Happy Thanksgiving, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Happy Thanksgiving“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 22, 2019: What Is The Point Of This Column?, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2019

November 22, 2019: What Is The Point Of This Column?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What is the Point of this Column?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 19, 2019: Court-Packing, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2019

November 19, 2019: Court-Packing, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Court-Packing“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 14, 2019: What’S Wrong With Impeachment, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2019

November 14, 2019: What’S Wrong With Impeachment, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What’s Wrong With Impeachment“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 7, 2019: The Politics Of Carl Schmidt Versus The Politics Of Abraham Lincoln, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2019

November 7, 2019: The Politics Of Carl Schmidt Versus The Politics Of Abraham Lincoln, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Politics of Carl Schmidt versus the politics of Abraham Lincoln“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


October 27, 2019: The Shooter And The Death Penalty, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2019

October 27, 2019: The Shooter And The Death Penalty, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Shooter and the Death Penalty“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


October 22, 2019: What Is The Universe?, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2019

October 22, 2019: What Is The Universe?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What is the Universe?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


October 14, 2019: Why The Democrats Need To Tap The Brakes On Impeachment, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2019

October 14, 2019: Why The Democrats Need To Tap The Brakes On Impeachment, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Why the Democrats Need to Tap the Brakes on Impeachment“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


October 9, 2019: Yom Kippur And The Shootings, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2019

October 9, 2019: Yom Kippur And The Shootings, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Yom Kippur and the Shootings“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


October 2, 2019: What Are The High Holy Days About?, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2019

October 2, 2019: What Are The High Holy Days About?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What are the High Holy Days About?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


"The Living Oracles": Legal Interpretation And Mormon Thought, Nathan B. Oman Sep 2019

"The Living Oracles": Legal Interpretation And Mormon Thought, Nathan B. Oman

Nathan B. Oman

No abstract provided.


September 22, 2019: Bends Toward Justice Podcast--Where You Can Hear It Now, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2019

September 22, 2019: Bends Toward Justice Podcast--Where You Can Hear It Now, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Bends Toward Justice Podcast--Where You Can Hear It Now“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


September 22, 2019: Nihilism In The Heartland, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2019

September 22, 2019: Nihilism In The Heartland, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Nihilism in the Heartland“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


The Real Legal Realism, Michael S. Green Sep 2019

The Real Legal Realism, Michael S. Green

Michael S. Green

No abstract provided.


International Law And Dworkin's Legal Monism, Michael S. Green Sep 2019

International Law And Dworkin's Legal Monism, Michael S. Green

Michael S. Green

No abstract provided.


Against The Conventionalist Turn In Legal Theory: Dickson On Hart On The Rule Of Recognition, Michael S. Green Sep 2019

Against The Conventionalist Turn In Legal Theory: Dickson On Hart On The Rule Of Recognition, Michael S. Green

Michael S. Green

No abstract provided.


Dworkin V. The Philosophers: A Review Essay On Justice In Robes, Michael S. Green Sep 2019

Dworkin V. The Philosophers: A Review Essay On Justice In Robes, Michael S. Green

Michael S. Green

In this review essay, Professor Michael Steven Green argues that Dworkin's reputation among his fellow philosophers has needlessly suffered because of his refusal to back down from his "semantic sting" argument against H. L. A. Hart. Philosophers of law have uniformly rejected the semantic sting argument as a fallacy. Nevertheless Dworkin reaffirms the argument in Justice in Robes, his most recent collection of essays, and devotes much of the book to stubbornly, and unsuccessfully, defending it. This is a pity, because the failure of the semantic sting argument in no way undermines Dworkin's other arguments against Hart.


Copyrighting Facts, Michael S. Green Sep 2019

Copyrighting Facts, Michael S. Green

Michael S. Green

No abstract provided.


September 14, 2019: Constitution Day 2019, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2019

September 14, 2019: Constitution Day 2019, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Constitution Day 2019“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


September 12, 2019: Bends Toward Justice Podcast Debuts This Week, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2019

September 12, 2019: Bends Toward Justice Podcast Debuts This Week, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Bends Toward Justice Podcast Debuts This Week“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


August 31, 2019: Is Hallowed Secularism Any Longer The Question?, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2019

August 31, 2019: Is Hallowed Secularism Any Longer The Question?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Is Hallowed Secularism Any Longer the Question?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.