History has shown that the law can be used to justify cruelty and oppression, and that morality must come first in order to ...

When citizens lose confidence in neutral rules applied consistently, the system itself begins to fracture. In recent years, that commitment has weakened. Increasingly, the Constitution is treated not ...

As inspired as the Constitution is, the Founding Fathers repeatedly declared that it would only be effective in preserving freedom if the people it governs are a moral and religious people. But who ...

A law named for morality crusader Anthony Comstock (left) is being used to argue against abortion medicationilbusca/Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images A federal appeals court discussed an ...

To have moral worth, our actions must be motivated by duty, rather than mere sympathy or inclination. As a paradigm of moral worth, Kant upheld the hard-hearted person who acts purely out of duty.

In The Concept of Law, H.L.A. Hart suggested that four formal features of morality distinguish it from law: importance, immunity from deliberate change, the nature of moral offences and the form of ...

The major part of our Torah portion, Mishpatim, raises important questions about Judaism, religion in general, ethics, and law. First, the nature of Judaism. I have a brief definition of Judaism: a ...

A federal appeals court discussed an obscure, 150-year-old morality law in its decision on abortion medication mifepristone. A challenge to the legality of sending abortion medications via mail ...