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The Constitution of the United States

September 18, 2009

This week, the country celebrated the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution in September of 1787.  Let’s look at some of the various web sites with United States Constitutional materials.
The Library of Congress has a United States Constitution page.  Resources include scanned images of a very early printing of the U.S. Constitution and links to [...]

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The Taliban and the Law

June 19, 2009

    The Taliban in Pakistan are not fighting for national independence or ethnic identity or economic principles.  Instead their principal goal is to replace the normal lawmaking process (legislation enforced in civil courts) with Sharia – Islamic law – to be enforced in religious courts. 

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Lincoln and the Transcendent Constitution: (2) The Apple of Gold and the Picture of Silver

December 31, 2008

     The first evidence of Lincoln's view of the Constitution for us to consider is from an undated fragment found among Lincoln's presidential papers after his death.  Some scholars believe that this was written shortly after Lincoln took office in 1861, and that it may have been intended as a response to his friend Alexander Stephens, the [...]

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