Criminal,
Constitutional Law
May 3, 2017
When words have no meaning
When state Legislatures can ignore initiative statutes by "redefining" the meaning of words, we no longer live under a government of laws, but the raw will of men.
John C. Eastman
Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence c/o Chapman Law School
1 University Dr
Orange , CA 92866
Phone: (714) 628-2587
Email: jeastman@chapman.edu
Univ of Chicago Law School
Dr. John C. Eastman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service at Chapman University's Fowler School of Law, and founding director of the Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence.
FIRST PRINCIPLES
The United States prides itself, quite rightly, on its adherence to the rule of law. Our body politic is, after all, "a government of laws and not of men," or so John Adams famously wrote of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780. That ideal has some notable exceptions, of course, manifested at various critical junctures of our nation's history. But those exceptions did not make the claim that the raw dictates of man were to p...
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