
Hadley Arkes
The Eric Metaxas Show
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Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution
The founders found the ground of natural law in those axioms, those anchoring axioms of truth. What I was trying to do here was take it back to those principles of common sense. The founders read the great Scott philosopher Thomas Reed. They're the line of Jefferson. He said, you could give the same moral problem to a plowman, man who runs a professor, and a plowmen as his abtegetment.
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