02906nam 22004693 450 991091587710332120241006090236.01-68053-709-1(CKB)5580000000518643(BIP)088427738(VLeBooks)9781680537093(MiAaPQ)EBC7192568(Au-PeEL)EBL7192568(EXLCZ)99558000000051864320241006d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFreedom's Anchor An Introduction to Natural Law Jurisprudence in American Constitutional History1st ed.La Vergne :Academica Press,2023.©2023.1 online resource (498 p.) 1-68053-707-5 In Freedom's Anchor, famed legal commentator Judge Andrew P. Napolitano makes the case for using natural law principles to restrain government. Going back to Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, Judge Napolitano identifies the origins of Natural Law Theory and explains its growth and development in English and American law. He argues compellingly that the idea that our rights come from our humanity - and not from social consensus or government - is enshrined in the Ninth Amendment, authored by none other than James Madison himself, the scrivener of the Constitution, and is binding on the courts today.Freedom's Anchor is essentially a history of law and power in the United States as seen through the lens of Natural Law Theory. This work traces the Supreme Court's explicit acceptance and explicit rejection of these principles. For the first time in one volume, Judge Napolitano gives us the universe of all published works in English (and some in Latin and in Spanish) on Natural Law Theory. He has scoured the Supreme Court's writings and examined all that reflect favorably or unfavorably upon the principles of innate human freedom.After having published nine previous books on the U.S. constitutional history, this is Judge Napolitano's magnum opus. It reflects a lifetime of thinking and understanding by one of America's preeminent legal thinkers. Scholars, judges, and law students will love this book. And non-lawyers who read this book - interested in the courts' historical treatment of fundamental human freedoms and how we lost them - will say to each other: "Wow. I didn't know that! There is still hope."Constitutional lawJudicial powerNatural lawConstitutional lawJudicial powerNatural law347.7312Napolitano Andrew P1778650MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910915877103321Freedom's Anchor4301575UNINA