Born and Unborn: Answering Objections to Constitutional Personhood

by John Finnis

It will sooner or later be for the Court to say what the people who ratified the Fourteenth Amendment committed the nation to. Continue Reading »

9 Apr 2021

Doubts About Constitutional Personhood

by Edward Whelan

The only plausible path to imminent legal protection of the unborn has as its first step overturning Roe and restoring abortion policy to the states. Continue Reading »

8 Apr 2021

Unborn Persons: Why Equal Protection Slept 102 Years

by John Finnis

John Finnis clarifies his argument that abortion is unconstitutional in response to Ed Whelan's objections.
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30 Mar 2021

John Finnis Is Right

by Josh Craddock

Legal conservatives and originalists should adjust their views in response to the clear and convincing historical evidence of constitutional personhood. Continue Reading »

19 Mar 2021

The Wreckage of Obergefell

by Michael Stokes Paulsen

Every generation, it seems, has its paradigm-defining Supreme Court case: a decision (or series of decisions) that determines the jurisprudential ethos and frames the judicial, political, and academic debate for the next quarter century or so. A landmark case of this sort also marks an ending, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2015

Liberty Adrift

by Fr. Dominic Bouck

How America's Original Sin Still Haunts Us in the Fourteenth Amendment

28 Jul 2015

Revisionism Revisited

by Robert P. George

Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth AmendmentBy Raoul Berger.Liberty Fund. 555 pp. $19.50 cloth, $9.50 paper. Almost twenty years before First Things’ symposium “The End of Democracy? The Judicial Usurpation of Politics” (November 1996), Raoul Berger, in Government by . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 1999