All Posts Tagged With: "George Mason"
America’s Role in Ending the Slave Trade: A Second Look
Honoring Great Britain’s withdrawal from the international slave trade has been an ongoing public event this year. The recurring message has been that the withdrawal—a watershed event in the elimination of slavery in the West—was largely the result of the actions of a single British politician, William Wilberforce. Wilberforce, imbued by strong Christian convictions, began [...]
1Jul2007 | T. Norman Van Cott | 1 comment | ContinuedConstitutional Intentions
A question frequently arises in disputes about how to interpret the U.S. Constitution: What was the intention of those who framed the document? This question contains an invalid assumption. It assumes that those who drafted the Constitution at the 1787 convention and those involved in the subsequent debates were of one mind and intent. In [...]
1Jun2000 | Wendy McElroy | 2 comments | ContinuedLiberating the Jury
Nathan Lapp is a dairy farmer and coordinator of the New York Fully Informed Jury Association in Cassadaga, New York. When disputes arise over who has the freedom to do what, fundamental principles of fairness, or “right reason,” as Roman philosopher Cicero phrased it, must come into play.[1] For this task, the founders recommended trial [...]
1Mar1998 | Nathan Lapp | 1 comment | Continued-
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