Salmon P. Chase was America's foremost developer and proponent of both constitutional and political abolitionism.
Constitutionalism stands for boundaries—above all, a boundary between what may be popular at any one moment and a considered judgment about what is lawful.
Individual natural rights are essential to assure that the “common good” is genuinely common to all.
Charles R. Kesler's new book brings together the classical beginnings of the study of politics with the story of our nation in thought and deed.