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Legally Elsewhere: The Unpredictable Due Process Protections Accorded to Arriving Immigrants at America’s Border

| August 6, 2022 | Alumnus, Young Scholars

Legally Elsewhere: The Unpredictable Due Process Protections Accorded to Arriving Immigrants at America’s Border
At any moment, tens of thousands of arriving immigrants are imprisoned within the United States without constitutional due process protection. Though held in immigration detention centers deep in the United States interior, these individuals—who arrive at America’s...
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Isaac Bock
Isaac Bock was selected as a 2021–2022 Young Scholar with the Initiative on Faith and Public Life. He is a senior at Patrick Henry College studying American Politics & Policy, and after graduating this autumn, he plans to pursue a legal career.

Emergency Powers for Climate Change

| December 13, 2019 | Blog Contributor

Emergency Powers for Climate Change
In case of a national emergency, the United States government must, in a quick and focused manner, react. Because an orderly response is most likely to come from one voice—the commander in chief—emergency powers fall into the lap of the president. But over the last...
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Katherine Cvancara
Katherine Cvancara was selected as a 2019 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a senior at George Fox University where she studies biology and political science.

Constitutional Durability: The Constitutions of the Order of Friars Preachers and American Constitutionalism

| November 17, 2018 | Politics, Society, Young Scholars

Constitutional Durability: The Constitutions of the Order of Friars Preachers and American Constitutionalism
In my paper “Constitutional Durability,” I argue that the constitution of the Order of Friars Preachers, a religious order colloquially known as the Dominicans, adds a unique point of view to our political discourse about good governance and durable...
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Anne Rodriguez
Anne Rodriguez was a 2017-2018 Young Scholar for the Initiative on Faith and Public Life and graduated from Providence College where she majored in political science and theology.