Natural Law in the Courts | Mark Bauerlein
Hadley Arkes joins the podcast to discuss his new book Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution.
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Hadley Arkes joins the podcast to discuss his new book Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution.
Hadley Arkes, a professor of political science and jurisprudence, models his latest book on C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. Lewis aimed to compress the fundamentals of his faith into a set of "principles that are accessible even to children." Arkes, who has articulated a natural-law and natural-rights-based approach to constitutional interpretation, endeavors to state the "anchoring truths" of that doctrine in a manner understandable "by virtually everyone," without prior philosophical or jurisprudential training. He believes that "ordinary people" ...
Hadley Arkes explains that conservative judges enamored by originalism and textualism might find themselves abandoning moral reasoning.
Hadley Arkes’s latest is a cogent argument for why "originalism is not enough."