I started on a posting the other day about how a Supreme Court “dream team” of founding fathers would respond to the 2nd Amendment case currently in consideration, but my research and fact gathering for that piece (which I may yet publish when I think it’s cooked long enough) took me in a completely different [...]
Archive for March, 2008
For Progressives, the Founding was America’s “Dark Ages”
Posted in Originalism, Progressivism, politics, tagged chronological snobbery, guns, NRA, Originalism, politics, progressive, Progressivism, second amendment on March 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“Potent Engines”: Washington on the Subversive Nature of Faction
Posted in Originalism, politics, tagged conservative, constitution, faction, George Washington, Originalism, partisan, political parties, politics on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have been stumped about which topic to first expound upon, so I decided to peruse the headlines for inspiration. My eyes were met with the usual carnage of partisan nastiness strewn across the headlines: rank accusations founded upon distortions of half-truths gleaned from anonymous sources, grievous stretches of logic and rhetoric weaving a [...]
Incipit Commentarius
Posted in Originalism, politics, tagged blog, capitalism, classical, conservative, exhibition, Originalism, partisan, politics, Republican, subjunctive on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to For a Course of Years. Please read the “About” page linked on the right to get your bearings. In the coming weeks I will begin putting down some of my thoughts and perhaps the general public will find them of worth. Then again, perhaps not. In either case, [...]
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