Tag: constitutional

Natural Rights and Religious Liberty: The Founders’ Perspective

Commentary The meaning of religious freedom remains one of the more contested areas of our constitutional politics. The progressive left tends to emphasize freedom from religion, especially freedom from the influence of traditional religious sexual morality. Social conservatives, by contrast, emphasize the right to be religious, especially the freedom to live and act in the…


Pennsylvania Republicans Try to Block School Mask Order

The debate over requiring Pennsylvania school children to wear masks in schools and childcare centers continued Tuesday in Harrisburg with a letter from the House Health Committee, challenging Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam’s authority to order masks in schools. In late August, Democrat Governor Tom Wolf asked the General Assembly to return to Harrisburg and…


Facts Matter (Sept. 8): New York County Goes ‘Constitutional’—Will Refuse All Government Overreach

In California, a group of parents filed a lawsuit against the state because a new curriculum in the public school system was having their children openly pray to five Aztec gods. In New York, a conservative county in the western part of the state has just passed a resolution, officially became a “Constitutional County” —meaning…