History has shown that the law can be used to justify cruelty and oppression, and that morality must come first in order to ...

When citizens lose confidence in neutral rules applied consistently, the system itself begins to fracture. In recent years, that commitment has weakened. Increasingly, the Constitution is treated not ...

Americans are increasingly looking to the law as the moral arbiter for our times. High-profile court cases on gay marriage, affirmative action, and the death penalty highlight the trend. But so do ...

There seems to be a great deal of confusion among voters regarding the dividing line between what is moral and what is legal. This leads to many of the cultural struggles that so desperately irritate ...

Were our Pilgrim fathers legal immigrants? The English government had given the Pilgrims land on the Hudson River near what is now New York. The Pilgrim’s ship, the Mayflower, blown off course, landed ...

Arkansas’ William Fulbright has as impressive an academic background as any U.S. Senator. A Rhodes scholar, he became president of the University of Arkansas at 34. He won a seat in Congress in 1942, ...

As we recently celebrated the Fourth of July, I have been engaging in the rich and fruitful exercise of re-reading the Declaration of Independence. This reading has brought some important things to ...

A federal appeals court discussed an obscure, 150-year-old morality law in its decision on abortion medication mifepristone. A challenge to the legality of sending abortion medications via mail ...

On Nov. 18, the NFL announced that Adrian Peterson would be suspended indefinitely for whipping his four-year-old son back in September. Citing the brutality of Peterson’s offense and his subsequent ...

Recent moral raids have sparked wide public discussion, not only about the policing of “immoral activities”, but more importantly about the legal safeguards that must govern any deprivation of liberty ...