Contents

Law, Constitution, and Culture

Lawless America:
What Happened to the Rule of Law
,  5
Bruce P. Frohnen

More Than ‘Parchment Barriers’:
The Ethical Center of
American Constitutionalism
,  28
Michael P. Federici

Shylock’s Conversion,  55
Gorman Beauchamp

Debt and Sovereignty:
The Lost Lessons
,  93
Brian Patrick Mitchell

Natural Law and History:
Challenging the
Legalism of John Finnis,  101
Nathanael Blake

Dr. Sam Johnson,  133
A poem by John Rees Moore

Dark Satanic Mills of Mis-Education:
Some Proposals for Reform
,  134
Robert C. Koons

An American Four Seasons,  151
A poem by Justin D. Garrison

Gambling from a Weak Hand:
Radical Skepticism and
an Ethics of Uncertainty
,  152
Sean Noah Walsh