James Dominic Rooney

Aug 6, 2024 | lawliberty.org | James Dominic Rooney |a Dominican friar |Robert G. Natelson |Daniel Buck

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 18)The context of this affirmation was novel.

Sep 21, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Kevin Vallier |James Dominic Rooney |a Dominican friar |Philip Bunn

There has been a resurgence lately in views that the State ought to be confessionally religious. Kevin Vallier’s book does a great service by treating the viability of confessional political theory at length, with intense seriousness, in a way that is accessible to non-specialists. Vallier’s book is divided into seven chapters. The first lays out Vallier’s primary target: Catholic integralism. Vallier is fairer than many who write about integralism.

Aug 23, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Brent Sadler |David R. Upham |Graham McAleer |James Dominic Rooney

The authority of Congress to “provide and maintain a Navy” is simply and directly stated as one of the enumerated powers of the Legislative Branch of government. The framers of the U.S. Constitution likely little dreamed that Congress would one day use that authority to build and send to sea the most powerful navy in world history—a guarantor of the nation’s sovereignty, prosperity, and peace.

Aug 21, 2023 | lawliberty.org | James Dominic Rooney |a Dominican friar |David R. Upham |Stephanie Slade

August 21, 2023 Government has a legitimate role in preserving peace, but it cannot make men virtuous. A classical perspective holds that ordinances and laws should be obeyed precisely insofar as those laws specify moral norms for the community. To specify or make determinate involves not merely applying moral norms to concrete situations, which anyone can do by themselves, but also creating the circumstances under which those obligations can be fulfilled.