A Case for Constitutional Reverence
In his second response to Sandy Levinson’s call for a new constitutional convention, Michael Greve cast doubt upon the efficacy of such a project given the mess of our fiscal circumstances. Under...
View ArticleThe “Law of the Land” Clause of Magna Carta, the Supremacy Clause, and...
During a recent trip to the National Archives, I saw one of the earliest known copies of Magna Carta in existence. And I remembered one of my favorite parts of Magna Carta, the “Law of the Land”...
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What a Providentially Bad President Can Do for America
King Arthur: I am your king! Woman: Well I didn’t vote for you! King Arthur: You don’t vote for kings. Woman: Well how’d you become king then? — Monty Python and the Holy Grail In his enviably readable...
View ArticleTitle-Deed of Liberty: Winston Churchill on Magna Carta
This year marks the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, an important landmark in the development of the English common law. His consent dramatically extorted by defiant barons at Runnymede in June of...
View ArticleMagna Carta at 800: A Continuing Inspiration
Samuel Johnson famously said: “That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.” Last week...
View ArticleMagna Carta’s Votaries, Skeptics, and Traditionalists
The octocentennial of Magna Carta has presented an auspicious occasion for reflecting on exactly what we ought to be celebrating, if anything, about Magna Carta, an ancient document with a tenuous...
View ArticleAnglifying American Conservatism
When it seemed that conservatism was finally settling into some defined boundaries under the presidency of Donald Trump, however fitfully—into Trump alt-populists, Never Trump former neocons,...
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