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NYU Law professor Melissa Murray: The Constitution was never meant to be finished — just fought for.
14+ hour, 6+ min ago (1599+ words) Melissa Murray explains how public vigilance keeps the Constitution alive. Constitution Day is September 17. In her Constitution Day Conversation with Fulcrum Contributor Rick LaRue, NYU School of Law professor and commentator Melissa Murray shares her appreciative yet critical perspective on…...
Our Constitution was designed as an antidote to tyranny. 250 years later, the villain is trying to smash the vial.
14+ hour, 26+ min ago (1718+ words) The Constitution’s strength against tyranny endures, but only if Americans choose to protect it. As the US Constitution turns 250, one expert argues it was designed as an antidote to tyranny — and warns that antidote is now at risk. There are…...
Why People Prefer Socialism to Capitalism
14+ hour, 55+ min ago (458+ words) Everybody says they want freedom, but most people really don’t, mainly because they don’t know what true freedom is. And if they did, they would—and do — reject it. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom,” Benjamin Franklin wrote,…...
Dear America, 2276: Did We Keep the Republic for You?
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (638+ words) But we know where you're standing. On July 4, 2276, somewhere near Independence Hall in Philadelphia, you will open a time capsule our generation buried 250 years earlier. Ten feet beneath the ground, sealed inside steel, we left you pieces of ourselves and…...
Dan Lee: A perilous time for our nation
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (123+ words) Dan Lee, a regular columnist, is the Marian Taft Cannon Professor in the Humanities at Augustana College; [email protected]. On numerous occasions, I have been asked what changes there have been at Augustana during the half-century that I have been here....
Could communism have worked here?
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (760+ words) I guess because we have all benefited so much from programmes he started, particularly the National Housing Trust, that it seems a bit ungrateful to remember things that soil his larger image. Secondly, it was such a divided era, particularly…...
Passionate about our Constitution: Dr. Chris Bean discusses how and why the U.S. Constitution was created
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (274+ words) Constitution Week is just around the corner. To mark that occasion, Ada Rotary Club hosted East Central University History Department Chairperson Dr. Chris Bean to speak about this important document. "In order to understand the Constitution, you need to understand…...
Opinion: Give Credit to George Washington this Constitution Day
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (207+ words) Our Constitution was not the product of one person or one group, but public trust in George Washington helped with ratification...
Mark Franke: Unalienable rights in perspective
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (657+ words) Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are solely the opinion of the writer and not the Daily Journal. What is it about us Americans and our hurry to move on to the next thing? By Christmas night the TV commercials are changing…...
"The Emergency Presidency at Twenty-Five"
4+ day, 6+ min ago (20+ words) A very interesting article by my colleague Prof. Michael McConnell (Stanford Law, Hoover) in the City Journal; in addition to......