LEADER 02906nam 22004693 450 001 9910915877103321 005 20241006090236.0 010 $a1-68053-709-1 035 $a(CKB)5580000000518643 035 $a(BIP)088427738 035 $a(VLeBooks)9781680537093 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7192568 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7192568 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000518643 100 $a20241006d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFreedom's Anchor $eAn Introduction to Natural Law Jurisprudence in American Constitutional History 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLa Vergne :$cAcademica Press,$d2023. 210 4$dİ2023. 215 $a1 online resource (498 p.) 311 $a1-68053-707-5 330 8 $aIn 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." 606 $aConstitutional law 606 $aJudicial power 606 $aNatural law 615 0$aConstitutional law 615 0$aJudicial power 615 0$aNatural law 676 $a347.7312 700 $aNapolitano$b Andrew P$01778650 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910915877103321 996 $aFreedom's Anchor$94301575 997 $aUNINA