Frequent contributor AWR Hawkins looks at The New York Times editorial board’s odd proclamation that recognition of a constitutional right “despoils” American universities.
The idea that we have the natural right to preserve “our own nature” underlies our rights to self-defense, to protect our own property, to speak the truth as we see it.
George Mason actually declined to sign the U.S. Constitution because the document didn’t then contain a bill of rights. Soon after, Mason and others would get their way and thereby safeguard our freedom.