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Trump wants court to rehear birthright citizenship case
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (330+ words) Thanks to all who joined us at our term-in-review event yesterday at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., which was presented by the ACLU. Scroll to the Closer Look section below for a brief overview of the discussion....
Reflections on the US Supreme Court
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (193+ words) In other words, the Supreme Court needs no fixing, notwithstanding Democratic Party support for 18-year term limits or altering the number of justices. What lawyers, law schools and even the justices often conceal is that the law embraces rival and…...
Defending America's Founding Principles in a Divided Age
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (400+ words) The United States faces threats that extend beyond the familiar divide between Democrats and Republicans. Increasingly, two ideological movements — one on the far left, one emerging on the populist right — share a willingness to undermine the principles that have long…...
A republic of neighbors: How moral agency and community can heal our divided nation
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (489+ words) President Dallin H. Oaks has pushed back against forces of division and called us to work together across our differences...
The Theological Debate around the Declaration of Independence - Providence
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (22+ words) 250 years on, the legacy of the English Civil War of the 17th century continues to define debates around the American founding...
Compromise isn’t surrender
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (997+ words) Can we hold firm convictions and still respect those who disagree? A Harvard professor on confident pluralism and the art of meaningful compromise...
4 facts busting the myth of Thomas Jefferson as a secularist hero * WorldNetDaily * by Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal
1+ week, 1+ day ago (334+ words) His 'separation of church & state' is a far cry from the modern secularist agenda...
Can We Restore the Principles of 1776?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (605+ words) - The American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 The world—at least by choice—is not going back to the horse and buggy age. We live in technologically advanced societies that have given us many wonderful inventions that make our lives far…...
The power of independence
1+ week, 1+ day ago (309+ words) How the Declaration of Independence challenges us to keep the republic...
Opinion: 250 years of self-government
1+ week, 1+ day ago (128+ words) The New World experiment was not simply a matter of ideas but a hard-won tradition of self-government...