Abortion, 2A, Slavery and the Metaphysics of Constitutional Personhood -- Justin Buckley Dyer ch.1a
Oct 2, 2026 · 46 min · 17 segments
!The Republican Professor The post…
Oct 2, 2026 · 46 min · 17 segments
!The Republican Professor The post…
Lucas J. MatherHost
The personhood angle has to do with the relationship between the Constitution and natural law or the moral law, and personhood is a word that is, uh, ref- used in the Constitution.
Rather, it seems to be a natural kind, something out there in nature that we encounter, and, uh, it's a class of, of beings that we encounter that, uh, provides the moral arc or goal of the law itself.
And there's a great book that gets exactly at the heart of the matter here called Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning by Justin Buckley Dyer.
The personhood angle has to do with the relationship between the Constitution and natural law or the moral law, and personhood is a word that is, uh, ref- used in the Constitution.
Rather, it seems to be a natural kind, something out there in nature that we encounter, and, uh, it's a class of, of beings that we encounter that, uh, provides the moral arc or goal of the law itself.
And there's a great book that gets exactly at the heart of the matter here called Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning by Justin Buckley Dyer.
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