How did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments transform the US Government? To maintain civil rights, they granted more power to the federal government.
Latter-day Saints lack a dedicated civil rights group, leading to challenges in political and cultural advocacy
Qualified immunity arose so that police wouldn’t have to guess what the Supreme Court would find unconstitutional. But it has grown far beyond that today.
More and more people are disparaging America’s founding documents as a barrier to progress. This weekend’s Constitution
Day is a good time to remind ourselves what they’re missing and the higher wisdom that inspired it all.
The Second Amendment to the US Constitution talks about the right to bear arms but also talks about a well-regulated militia. It’s time to talk about how compromise can enable the Second Amendment for the good of all.
Advocating for a new tack in the pro-life movement, the author proposes to expand the coalition beyond the religious right, and help it avoid the pitfalls of an entirely right-wing partisan movement.
If it’s true yesterday “did not reflect the core of who we are as Americans,” the siege of our nation’s capital does say something about who many of us are becoming. Is this just another step on a downward spiral, or could it become a legitimate turning point for our nation’s trajectory?
When we stop depending on legislatures as the place Americans can hash out their disagreements, it should perhaps not surprise us when court mandates don’t effectively fill the gap.
A Review of Rod Dreher’s Live Not By Lies
With the Supreme Court at the front of center stage in the American public eye, the upcoming religious liberty cases are seeing a lot of light.
Will admonitions to be kinder, nicer, more civil, and less hateful be enough to change our pained American discourse? Or have they become part of the problem?
Nietzsche once suggested Christianity is vulnerable to appropriation by lofty humanitarian aspirations. Are we falling into that tendency unawares?
