Pat Smith comments at Ius & Iustitium on my prior post on originalism and positive law, comparing it to Stephen Douglas's studied neutrality on the expansion of slavery. Smith analogizes leaving ...

Stephen Douglas is not ... The Kansas-Nebraska Act, which Douglas authored and sponsored, is remembered as a scheme for opening the territories to slavery. In fact, it was Douglas’s scheme ...

The plaque, depicting Stephen Douglas, was donated by the class of 1901 in honor of Douglas. The plaque, in Hutchinson Commons, features a bas relief of Douglas and an inscription noting that ...

Stephen A. Douglas has always been a controversial politician. He was the most controversial politician of the 1850s, when he authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed settlers in the ...