Below is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic.
Employers’ Vaccine Mandates Are Representative of America’s Failed Approach to Public Health
By Wendy E. Parmet, Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Health Policy and Law, Northeastern University School of Law
Wendy E. Parmet writes about how the COVID-19 pandemic—and the response to it—personifies the privatization of public health and a distorted view of the social contract that elevates personal liberty over the common good.
By Harry Kalven Jr., Former Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Harry Kalven Jr., in an article written in 1974 but not published until now, looks at the positive and negative aspects of forcing former-President Richard Nixon to stand trial for his crimes in the Watergate scandal, before he was ultimately pardoned by President Gerald Ford.
Lots of People Are Disqualified From Becoming President
By Richard D. Bernstein, Appellate Lawyer
Richard D. Bernstein argues that the Constitution bans many people from becoming president, such as people under the age of 35, and that the ability to disqualify a former president from holding office again is simply another safeguard the Founders created to preserve the Republic.
