I love having two of my favorite writers posting on the same blog. Rowe is guest blogging at Sandefur's Freespace this week and the two of them have really been cranking out some great stuff. Sandefur takes on conservatism (real conservatism, not the political variety) and points out the classical liberal foundations of the Constitution. Then Rowe has a brief post on textualism and original intent. Next, Sandefur goes after Robert Bork, much to my delight. Finally, Rowe looks at Judge Posner's recent statements on natural rights and constitutional law. Great stuff, guys.
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Great stuff indeed. Judge Posner was gracious to guest host on Leiter's blog, and the responses by Jon and Tim to his posts and other issues have been outstanding. This offers quite a contrast to the meaningless blathering over on the ARN web site. B
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Despite my being a raving liberal, I tend to like most of the Posner decisions I read. I share his scepticism at "natural law", though I know more about the NL of Acquinas and Scholasticism than I do of the 18th C. political philosophers. I'm pretty sceptical that NL implies a clear denial of slavery. Perhaps from our point of view it does, but probably not from that of a Founding Father.