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Common Sense and Common Law

Common-Law Liberty:  Rethinking American Constitutionalism.by James R. Stoner, Jr.University Press of Kansas.  208 pp. $29.95. For most people the term “common law” summons up quaint images of wigged British judges and piles of dusty law books. For many practicing lawyers and law . . . . Continue Reading »

The Constitution in the Cave

There’s an old and famous story about a community of people who live in a cave. Fires burn behind them, throwing shadows of various shapes onto the cave wall; and never having seen real objects in the sunlight, the cave people think these shadows are the only and most complete reality. One day, . . . . Continue Reading »

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