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Founding Fathers And The Natural Law: A Study Of The Source Of Our Legal Institutions, The, Clarence Emmett Manion
Founding Fathers And The Natural Law: A Study Of The Source Of Our Legal Institutions, The, Clarence Emmett Manion
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Where did the Founding Fathers get the principles upon which they established our government? What was the source of their faith? The bedrock of their convictions? What was the political evolution of our Constitution? The legal philosophy of our Bill of Rights? The discussion of these questions by Dean Manion is timely for it is necessary now to make soundings and take bearings if the Ship of State is to continue on its true course. Whereas the Revolution of 1688 brought the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty to England, the American colonists resisted that doctrine and adhered to the true natural …
Have We Lost The Ball?, Clarence Emmett Manion
Have We Lost The Ball?, Clarence Emmett Manion
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Americans are devoted to a wide variety of ball games. In every season of the year millions of us are continually congregating to observe the swift, skillfully directed flight of baseballs, footballs, basket balls and golf balls. In all of these contests and exhibitions the existence, nature and condition of the involved ball 'has become a remote secondary consideration. The ball is taken for granted. We are concerned exclusively with the skill and coordination of the players and their intelligent observance of the rules. Nevertheless, in all of these games it must be admitted that "the ball" is the thing …
American Philosophy Of Law, Clarence Emmett Manion
American Philosophy Of Law, Clarence Emmett Manion
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America’s philosophy of law is a rich heritage sculpted by the American Revolution. The bold aspirations of the Declaration of Independence, which advances notions of inalienable, God-given rights find more mild-mannered forms in our Constitution. However, this prevailing concept is what makes our legal and political environment distinct from our English forebears.
Religion And American Law, Clarence Emmett Manion
Religion And American Law, Clarence Emmett Manion
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This article discusses the relationship of law and religion in American culture. It constructs a theory of "American Faith", a theory that underlies all of American jurisprudence. This theory includes the propositions that there is a God, that all men are equal in God's sight even if not in front of mortal men, and that the American Revolution was a "revolution of believers." It concludes that religious liberty is our one and only true freedom and by holding onto it we can support human rights and freedom.
A Lawyer Looks At Liberty, Clarence Emmett Manion
A Lawyer Looks At Liberty, Clarence Emmett Manion
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The Law has been defined as "The Perfection of Human Reason." This, of course, is a highly idealized definition. The Law often falls short of perfect reasonableness. Nevertheless reason and logic constitute the warp and woof of the whole fabric of our jurisprudence. In the strict determination and application of the Law, emotion-the natural enemy of reason-plays not part at all. In the courtroom, oratorical pyrotechnics are seldom permitted to obscure the real points that are at issue in a particular case. The trial of a lawsuit is predicated upon the pleadings and the art of formal pleading is as …
Two Preambles: A Distinction Between Form And Substance, Clarence Emmett Manion
Two Preambles: A Distinction Between Form And Substance, Clarence Emmett Manion
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The drill of research generally goes down just far enough to reach the oil of a controlling precedent and not an inch beyond. It is difficult to convince the average American lawyer that the perspective of his profession has changed since his school days, that it is still changing, and that the shift will soon take the direction of a revolution unless we immediately and deliberately re-anchor ourselves to the good earth of fixed first principles. With natural rights and judicial review subtracted from our American system, foreign news accounts of "Mercy Deaths," "Blood Purges," "Forced Labor," "Property Confiscation," "Aryan …
In Re Liberty: A Book And Its Critic, Clarence Emmett Manion
In Re Liberty: A Book And Its Critic, Clarence Emmett Manion
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The restrictive craze of American legislators is fast reducing our once virile and individually resourceful population to a race of unthinking automatons. Judicially and otherwise, American liberty and individual competence which is its hand-maid are rapidly being lost. This article discusses the book "Losing Liberty Judicially" by Thomas James Norton and the review of the book by Robert C. Brown.
Shrinking Bill Of Rights, Clarence Emmett Manion
Shrinking Bill Of Rights, Clarence Emmett Manion
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The assertion of intrinsic, God given rights correlated with the decline of monarchical power. The United States’ understanding that all men and women are endowed with unalienable rights was a long and hard-fought conclusion. However, this article argues that the Bill of Rights has gradually changed from being the bold guardian of individual liberty originally envisioned. Ironically, this change can be attributed to the courts and the legislature.