The James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding

Board of Jurists

 

The Board of Jurists is a collection of the most devoted regular attendees of our JWI Senior Seminars. These judges lend informal advice as to which topics might be chosen for discussion at the Senior Seminars. 

 
Anchoring Truths
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Anchoring Truths - a James Wilson Institute project
The James Wilson Institute has sought to recover, and to teach again, those anchoring truths that provided for the Founders the moral ground of the law.
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The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it.
— James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1790