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Ellis Washington is a former staff editor of the Michigan Law Review and law clerk at the Rutherford Institute. He is a professor of Constitutional Law, Legal Ethics, and Contracts at the National Paralegal College, a counselor at the American College of Education, and a founding board member of Salt and Light Global. Washington is a co-host of "Joshua's Trial," a radio show of Christian conservative thought. A graduate of John Marshall Law School and post-grad work at Harvard Law School, his latest law review article is titled, "Social Darwinism in Nazi Family and Inheritance Law." Washington’s latest book is a 2-volume collection of essays and Socratic dialogues – "The Progressive Revolution" (University Press of America, 2013). Visit his popular law/political blog, "EllisWashingtonReport.com, an essential repository dedicated to educating the next generation of young conservative intellectuals.
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Hitler, Nazism and the bottomless pit of evil

by Ellis Washington -- [caption id="attachment_387527" align="alignright" width="235" caption="Virgil and Dante at the entrance to the Bottomless Pit from Dante’s “Inferno” (etching by Gustave Doré)"][/caption] Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek more…

The cruel and unusual 8th Amendment

by Ellis Washington -- Capital punishments are the natural offspring of monarchical governments. … Kings consider their subjects as their property; no wonder, therefore, they shed their blood with as little emotion more…

What if 10th Amendment were respected again?

by Ellis Washington -- [The federal government began] working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, more…

The aborted 9th Amendment

by Ellis Washington -- "[The Ninth Amendment] specifically roots the Constitution in a natural rights tradition that says we are born with more rights than any constitution could ever list or specify." more…

Birth of a conservative intellectual, Part 2

by Ellis Washington -- Prologue In my last column, "Birth of a conservative intellectual," I presented a personal narrative of how I rejected the zeitgeist of Darwinism, liberalism, socialism and hedonism that more…

Birth of a conservative intellectual

by Ellis Washington -- My favorite definition of an intellectual: "Someone who has been educated beyond his intelligence." – Arthur C. Clarke, "3001: The Final Odyssey" Prologue I've been a Ronald Reagan more…

John Dewey's dunces

by Ellis Washington -- A new untruth is better than an old truth. – Justice O.W. Holmes Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society more…

BHO: Woodrow Wilson reborn

by Ellis Washington -- The president is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit; and if Congress more…

Mark Levin on President Woodrow Wilson

by Ellis Washington -- No doubt a great deal of nonsense has been talked about the inalienable rights of the individual, and a great deal that was mere vague sentiment and pleasing more…

1913-2013: 100 years of collective dementia

by Ellis Washington -- [caption id="attachment_341679" align="alignright" width="220" caption="Birth of a Tragedy: President Wilson"][/caption] Our obsession with the Constitution has saddled us with a dysfunctional political system, kept us from debating the more…