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Natural Rights & the Right to Choose

David M. Smolin

The anti-abortion movement has been struggling since 1992, when the Supreme Court reaffirmed Roe v. Wade and the country elected a President who supported abortion rights. These combined events...

The Supreme Court 2000: A Symposium

David M. Smolin

In considering the blind spots of other generations or cultures from a safe distance, it becomes clear that there is no atrocity, no horror, no injustice which human beings,...

The Limits of Theory

David M. Smolin

The Problematics of Moral and Legal TheoryBy Richard A. Posner.Belknap/Harvard University Press.  320 pp. $29.95 Richard Posner, well-known as both a federal judge and legal academic, is generally recognized...

Alabama Standing in the Need of Prayer

David M. Smolin

The controversy over the injunction issued in October 1997 by Alabama Federal District Judge Ira M. DeMent restricting religious activity in public schools, as well as the continuing controversy...

Consecrating the President

David M. Smolin

This month a hundred million Americans will watch a United States Supreme Court Justice once again ask a President-elect to place his hand upon a Christian Bible and swear...