Ellis Washington column

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 on 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, www.EllisWashingtonReport.com, an essential repository dedicated to educating the next generation of young conservative intellectuals.

Ellis Washington

May 19, 2013

"We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us." ~ Lenin Dr. Charles . . .

Ellis Washington

May 12, 2013

Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens who taught Plato. Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates . . .

Ellis Washington

May 6, 2013

"During the reign of the Ku Klux Klan, they documented 5,000 deaths, during that 100-year reign [1865-1965]. In one week, 8,000 black people die, but they're . . .

Ellis Washington

April 28, 2013

"Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for . . .

Ellis Washington

April 21, 2013

Summum ius summa inuria. (More laws, less justice) ~ Cicero, De Officiis, 1, 10, 33 America 2013 stands at the precipice of human history. Will Americans . . .

Ellis Washington

April 14, 2013

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no . . .

Ellis Washington

April 10, 2013

"I'm curious, when did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791 [when the Fifth Amendment was adopted]? 1868, when the 14th . . .

Ellis Washington

March 27, 2013

"The criminal is to go free because the constable has blundered." ~ Justice Benjamin Cardozo In their notes on the Sixth Amendment, O'Connor and Sabato . . .

Ellis Washington

March 17, 2013

I consider [trial by jury] as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution. ~ Thomas . . .

Ellis Washington

March 11, 2013

Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. . . .

Ellis Washington

March 3, 2013

Capital punishments are the natural offspring of monarchical governments. ... Kings consider their subjects as their property; no wonder, therefore, they shed . . .

Ellis Washington

February 17, 2013

"[The Ninth Amendment] specifically roots the Constitution in a natural rights tradition that says we are born with more rights than any constitution could . . .

Ellis Washington

February 9, 2013

Prologue In my last column, "Birth of a conservative intellectual," I presented a personal narrative of how I rejected the zeitgeist of Darwinism, liberalism . . .

Ellis Washington

February 7, 2013

My favorite definition of an intellectual: "Someone who has been educated beyond his intelligence." – Arthur C. Clarke, "3001: The Final Odyssey"  . . .