COMMENTARY: The natural law is not only a basis for personal freedom and fulfillment, but also for social cohesion. It should not be displaced. The growing tendency in the modern world — as both the ...

For hundreds of years, thinkers have tried to answer this problem by attempting to understand the origin of laws and rights ...

Western democratic systems are increasingly plagued by a war of individual rights that leads to a tyranny of minorities over majorities. Two centuries after Alexis de Tocqueville predicted — in ...

Constitutional theorists on the right are engaged in a debate about the moral foundations of originalism, the theory that government officials, including judges, are bound by the original meaning of ...

There is an ongoing debate among scholars and commentators about the compatibility of originalism and the natural-law tradition. Most prominently, Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule and emeritus ...