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Harry V. Jaffa (born 1918) is a conservative author and distinguished fellow of the Claremont Institute, a California think tank. Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Conservatism is a term used to describe political philosophies that favour Tradition, where tradition refers to various religious cultural or nationally defined An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created The Claremont Institute is a conservative Think tank based in Claremont California. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. A think tank (also called a policy institute) is an organization institute corporation or group that conducts Research and engages in advocacy in areas such

He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and a Ph. D. from The New School. This is about the university in New York; for other uses see New School (disambiguation. Jaffa's most noted book, Crisis of the House Divided examines the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate and the incumbent Stephen A

During the 1964 presidential campaign, Jaffa served as a speechwriter to Republican candidate Barry Goldwater, and is credited with suggesting that Goldwater quote in his nomination acceptance address Cicero's famous expression, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is not a virtue. Please DO NOT flip the colors -->The United States presidential election of 1964 was one of the most lopsided presidential elections in the history of the United States Marcus Tullius Cicero ( Classical Latin ˈkikeroː usually ˈsɪsərəʊ in English January 3, 106 BC &ndash December 7, 43 BC was a Roman "[1][2]

He is one of the most famous students of Leo Strauss and is the leader of what are often called the "West Coast Straussians," a branch of the Straussian movement. Leo Strauss (September 20 1899 &ndash October 18 1973 was a German -born Jewish-American political philosopher who specialized in the study of classical Leo Strauss (September 20 1899 &ndash October 18 1973 was a German -born Jewish-American political philosopher who specialized in the study of classical

Lincoln debated

Jaffa is a leading conservative proponent of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln (February 12 1809 &ndash April 15 1865 the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest internal

In the mid-1960s Jaffa debated Lincoln's meaning to conservatives in National Review, with Frank Meyer, who took a critical view on abuses of civil liberties and expansion of government power. National Review ( NR) is a biweekly Magazine and Web site, founded by the late author William F Frank Straus Meyer (1909 &ndash 1972 was a Libertarian political philosopher and co-founding editor of the National Review magazine thumb| |Broken Liberty Istanbul Archaeology Museum Civil liberties are freedoms that protect the Individual from the Government. This discussion occupied several articles, and the controversy persists to this day. Others who took a critical view of Jaffa's scholarship were Russell Kirk, Richard Weaver and Willmoore Kendall. Russell Kirk ( 19 October 1918 &ndash 29 April[[ 994]] was an American Political theorist, Historian, Social Richard Weaver may refer to Richard C Weaver, better known as the "Handshake Man" Richard M Willmoore Kendall (1909 – 1968 was an American conservative writer and Professor of Political philosophy. [3]

He has also argued with Thomas DiLorenzo, who has written unflatteringly on Lincoln, and who asserts that Jaffa is overly flattering toward Lincoln to the detriment of historically documented fact. Thomas J DiLorenzo (born 1954 is an American Economics Professor at Loyola College in Maryland. [4] [5]. DiLorenzo and Jaffa are often critical of each other. And Jaffa has debated with M.E. Bradford, a conservative critic of Lincoln. Melvin E "Mel" Bradford (1934-March 3 1993 was a conservative political commentator and professor of literature at the University of Dallas.

In the mid-1990s Jaffa was in a debate with several conservative legal thinkers. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 In his book Storm over the Constitution he formulated what he called a theory of constitutional law , incorporating the Declaration of Independence, sometimes referred to as Declarationism. Constitutional law is the study of foundational or basic Laws of nation states and other political organizations The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4 1776 announcing that the thirteen American colonies then Declarationism is a legal philosophy that incorporates the United States Declaration of Independence into the body of case law on level with the United States Constitution The theory was criticized for being overly philosophical and theological, rather than legal, despite being presented as a legal argument. His approach was critical of figures including Robert Bork and William Rehnquist; Jaffa exchanged heated words on the pages of National Review with Bork. Robert Heron Bork (born March 1, 1927) is a conservative American legal scholar who advocates the judicial philosophy of Originalism. William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1 1924 – September 3 2005 was an American lawyer, jurist, and a political figure who served as an Associate Justice

References

  1. ^ William F. Buckley (1970). William Frank Buckley Jr ( November 24 1925  – February 27 2008) was an American Author and conservative Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, p. 214.  
  2. ^ Harry V. Jaffa (1984). "Goldwater's Famous 'Gaffe'". National Review 36 (15): 36. National Review ( NR) is a biweekly Magazine and Web site, founded by the late author William F  
  3. ^ Nash, Georg H. (1998). The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America, Since 1945. Wilmington, Del: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, p. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc or (ISI, is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1953 as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists 205-210. ISBN 188292620X.  
  4. ^ DiLorenzo, Thomas Jaffa’s Hitlerian Defense of Lincoln 2002 May ;10
  5. ^ DiLorenzo, Thomas "The Indefensible Abe" - Review of Harry Jaffa's book "A New Birth of Freedom" 2001


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