Displaying the Ten Commandments in American courthouses has become quite controversial. So why has no one objected in Queens, the most ethnically and religiously diverse place in the United States? Continue Reading »
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes gave voice to the “modern” project in law: It would be a gain, he said, “if every word of moral significance could be banished from the law altogether, and other words adopted which should convey legal ideas uncolored by anything outside the law.” The law would . . . . Continue Reading »
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