Tag: Law and Morality
Rescuing the Right to Life: The Aftermath of Abortion Rights in America
“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives. ‘The permissibility of abortion, and the limitations, upon it, are to be resolved like most important questions in our democracy: by citizens trying to persuade one another and then voting.’” ~Justice Samuel Alito, citing the late Justice […]
Myths vs. Facts (Part 9) – Young America: Expansion by Force
About the Author—Professor Ellis Washington, J.D.—I went to Harvard Law School with future POTUS Barack Hussein Obama for 1 year (1988-89), but I took the opposite path in Life—New World Order, Communism, Treason, Pedophilia & Satanic Ritual Abuse vs. Christianity, Conservatism, Protecting the Children & TRUMPism. I repeatedly refused to take the “Satan OATH” which […]
Reply To Judge Richard A. Posner on The Inseparability of Law and Morality
This article is a formal Reply to Judge Richard A. Posner’s article published in the Harvard Law Review.2 Posner’s article was actually an amalgamation of lectures he gave as the speaker of the annual Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture series celebrating the 100th anniversary of Holmes’s famous essay, “The Path of Law.” In these lectures, Posner addresses his aversion to what he calls academic moralism,” moral philosophy, legal theory, moral theory and “moral entrepreneurs,” because moral theory lacks the “intellectual cogency or the emotional power to change people’s beliefs or behavior.”
On the Sophistry of Positive Legal Theory
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