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“The Constitution has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it.” Lysander Spooner (1808 – 1887) In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln invaded Kentucky, which was
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“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”
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We are now living in the most revolutionary age in the history of mankind. It is even more revolutionary than the Enlightenment. The revolutions induced by the Enlightenment were revolutions to dethrone the church and the
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I both like and respect strict constitutional constructionists. Like them, I am a right winger. But I fear they are committed to a hopeless approach to restoring the rule of law, because they operate on a naively modern
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Professor Stephen Dilley of St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, offers a fascinating article on the First Things web site entitled The Problem of Self-Loathing at Evangelical Colleges. During his own engagements at
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Man is very well defended against himself, against his own spying and sieges; usually he is able to make out no more of himself than his outer fortifications. The actual stronghold is inaccessible to him, even invisible, unless
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“Capitalism” is a misnomer for a vision that most of us on the right are passionately attached to — freedom of association. We should not be defending “capitalism” at this point in history because
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Many leftists complain that orthodox Christianity is dangerous. And of course it is dangerous to all liberal mythology insofar as it is a commitment to a historically based tradition, as opposed to some rationalist, permanently
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Dr. R. C. Sproul seems to believe that by practicing and recommending a certain view of reason — the classical cum modern view — he is somehow saving the culture for Christianity. I don’t get it. This
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The Western “Enlightenment” is still trying to convince us that reason is one or more universal standards of rational justification applied to theories about our experience of a presumably shared