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Anchoring Truths, Natural Law, and Moral Order — A Conversation with Professor Hadley Arkes

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

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Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution

Professor Hadley-Arkes argues that it was a false move for conservatives to grasp upon the theory of originalism or textualism. Anderson: The mistake in originalism is that people detached the Constitution from the moral ground and those principles that the founders were drawing upon before they made the Constitution. But we see Roe v. Wade did not merely establish the right to abortion. It changed the culture, he says.

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