Monthly Archives: April 2011

by George Anastaplo Prepared for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, April 25, 2011, page 1 We celebrate this month the 50th Anniversary of the decision of the United States Supreme Court in my Illinois bar admission case. That 5-4 decision … Continue reading →

April 5, 2011 Dear Mr. Stone: Re the study of statecraft today: Useful places to begin include 1)     Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Law, especially Q. 90, A. 4 (the definition of law); 2)     the thought and conduct of a democratic … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo I. We are now one-third of the way through our tenth year since the September 11, 2001 “terrorist” attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. And we are now in the first fortnight of the shooting … Continue reading →

By George Anastaplo   The godly does not only apprehend the meaning of the words in the Scripture, and are able to discourse of the reasons therin contained, but they discern also the spiritualnesse of the work of grace, that … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo [August 28, 1997] If [the] Declaration [of Independence] is not the truth, let us get the statute book in which we find it and tear it out! —Abraham Lincoln (1858)   I. Justice Scalia visited, in April … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo It can be instructive to see the uses made of one’s published work by an author whom one does not personally know. An opportunity to do this was recently offered me upon my being provided, by its … Continue reading →