The Free Life | Wendy McElroy Posted August 16, 2011 on THE FREEMAN “Taking the Fifth” – invoking the right against self-incrimination – is a mainstay of mafia movies in which heinous criminals hide behind liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Today guarantees such as due process are often portrayed as encumbrances that threaten [...]
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The importance of the right against self-incrimination.
Posted in Freedom Philosophy Also tagged Constitutional Rights, Fifth Amendment, Foundation for Economic Education, Liberties, The Freeman, Tyranny, Wendy McElroy Leave a comment
Richard Epstein: The Reid Bill Is Blatantly Unconstitutional
By Andrew McCarthy at National Review Online on December 23, 2009 – better late than never! At PointOfLaw.com, the distinguished University of Chicago constitutional scholar Richard Epstein provides a painstaking, withering analysis of the healthcare legislation wending its way through the Senate. He concludes that it is clearly unconstitutional. The essay is lengthy and, in [...]
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The Nature of Natural Law
by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D. “The expression ‘life, liberty, and property’ in the Fourteenth Amendment reflects the influence of natural law theory. The Bill of Rights assumes a doctrine of natural and unalienable rights. “A law which is not just is a law in name only,” says Augustine.” Most people are confused by the use [...]
Posted in Natural Law Also tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Cicero, Fourteenth Amendement, Greek Philosophy, Hegel, John Locke, Kant, Laws of Nature, Mortimer J. Adler, Natural Law, Plato Leave a comment
