Ledewitz Papers
This collection of published articles includes material ranging from 1979 through 2024.

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Submissions from 2024

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No Balancing for Anti-Constitutional Government Conduct, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2023

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An Alternative to the Independent State Legislature Doctrine, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Openness of Talmud, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Theological Error Behind Post-Liberalism’s Bid for Political Power, Bruce Ledewitz

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Why I Am No Longer a Jew, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2022

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Dobbs Is Not a Religion Case, Bruce Ledewitz

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On Controlling the Supreme Court: Is There a Future for American Law?, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Future of Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

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This Earthly Frame: The Making of American Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2021

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Book Review, Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics, Bruce Ledewitz

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I Am Resigning From the Pro-life Movement, Bruce Ledewitz

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Why Secular Society Desperately Needs the Recognition of Religious Holidays, Bruce Ledewitz

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With Jews Under Attack, Here is a Chance to Act, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2020

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Saving Judicial Independence from the Nihilism of Court-Packing, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2019

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A Call For America’s Law Professors to Oppose Court-Packing, Bruce Ledewitz

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Don’t Lock Trump Up, Just Because Mueller Said You Can, Bruce Ledewitz

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How State Courts Can Help America Recover the Rule of Law: The Pennsylvania Experience, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Supreme Court Will Preserve the Bladensburg Cross, But It Matters How, Bruce Ledewitz

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What Has gone Wrong and what can we do About it?, Bruce Ledewitz

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What is the Best Model for Investigating Presidential Wrongdoing Today?, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2018

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A Lost Opportunity to Reach a Consensus on Gerrymandering, Bruce Ledewitz

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Kennedy’s Retirement: Despair Not, Go Out and Organize, Bruce Ledewitz

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“Taking the Threat to American Democracy Seriously: The Truth/Justice/Democracy Initiative,”, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Obama Judge and the Foundations of the Rule of Law, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Resurrection of Trust in American Law and Public Discourse, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Resurrection of Trust in American Law and Public Discourse, Bruce Ledewitz

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When I Left the Darwin Day Committee, Bruce Ledewitz

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Why Won't Free Speech Save Us?, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2017

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Has Nihilism Politicized the Supreme Court Nomination Process?, Bruce Ledewitz

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Is Religion a Non-Negotiable Aspect of Liberal Constitutionalism?, Bruce Ledewitz

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Religion and Gay Rights Need Not be at Loggerheads, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Role of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools in the Renewal of American Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz

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‘Trinity’ Case Marks Death of Originalism, Bruce Ledewitz

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Withholding Judgment: In Reading the Constitution, Judges Should Consider Their Own Morals,, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2016

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The Five Days in June When Values Died in American Law, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Threat of Independent Political Spending to Democratic Life—And a Plan to Stop It, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2015

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An Addendum in Light of Recent Developments, Bruce Ledewitz

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Beyond Edmunds: The State Constitutional Legacy of Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille, Bruce Ledewitz

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Defeating the Super PACs that Distort Our Political Process, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2014

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Deal Leaves Court Issues Unresolved, Bruce Ledewitz

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Experimenting with Religious Liberty: The Quasi-Constitutional Status of Religious Exemptions, Bruce Ledewitz

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Pa. Gay Marriage With an Exemption, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Vietnam Draft Cases and the Pro-Religion Equality Project, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2013

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An Opinion for the Ages, Bruce Ledewitz

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Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court, Still Broken, Bruce Ledewitz

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Stretching Religious Liberty, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2012

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Robert Taylor, An Appreciation, Bruce Ledewitz

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Toward a Meaning-Full Establishment Clause Neutrality, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2011

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An Essay Concerning Judicial Resignation and Non-Cooperation in the Presence of Evil, Bruce Ledewitz

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Islam, Judaism and the Murders at Itamar, Bruce Ledewitz

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It’s Time to Reconsider Graduation Prayer in Public High Schools, Bruce Ledewitz

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Justice’s Suspension is Dubious, Bruce Ledewitz

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Step Down, Justice Melvin, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Incredible Shrinking Free Exercise Clause, Bruce Ledewitz

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What About the Morality of Torture, Results Aside?, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2010

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Constitutional Caution, Bruce Ledewitz

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John Yoo and Jay Bybee Dodge Disciplinary Action But Recall Nuremberg, Bruce Ledewitz

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Seeking Common Ground: A Secular Statement, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Future of God—and Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Future of God—and Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

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The New New Secularism and the End of the Law of the Separation of Church and State, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2009

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Charles Taylor and the Future of Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

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Could Government Speech Endorsing a Higher Law Resolve the Establishment Clause Crisis?, Bruce Ledewitz

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“God” is Just Another Word, Bruce Ledewitz

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Rebuilding the Wall of Separation: A Progressive Discussion on Church & State, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2007

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Democrats get Religion – Just in Time, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Wall Falls, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2006

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For A New Order in the Court, Bruce Ledewitz

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Keep These Branches Untangled, Bruce Ledewitz

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Protecting Posterity: Economics, Abortion, Politics, and the Law, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2005

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In Pittsburgh, freedom abridged, Bruce Ledewitz

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Make >Em Fess Up, Bruce Ledewitz

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The End of American Democracy?, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Present and Future of Federalism, Bruce Ledewitz

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Up Against the Wall of Separation: The Question of Religious Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2004

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A Constitution for Everyone, Bruce Ledewitz

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Justice Harlan’s Law and Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Bright Future of Gay Marriage, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2003

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Corporate Advertising's Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Promise of Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2002

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Jubelirer’s Jubilee, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Constitutions of Sustainable Capitalism and Beyond, Bruce Ledewitz

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Winking at Jubelirer’s Maneuvers, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 2001

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Mr. Carroll’s Mental State Or What Is Meant By Intent, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 1999

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When Federal Law is also State Law: The Implications for State Constitutional Law Methodology of Footnote 7 in Commonwealth v. Matos, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 1998

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Constitutionalizing Kwik-E-Mart, Bruce Ledewitz

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Establishing a Federal Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment in Us and in Our Posterity, Bruce Ledewitz

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Imperfect Death Penalty Not Acceptable, Bruce Ledewitz

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Original Intent: Does the Double Jeopardy Clause Apply to Incarceration?, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 1997

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Law and the Coming Environmental Catastrophe, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Law of the Jubilee in Modern Perspective, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 1996

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Asimov Goes to Law School, Bruce Ledewitz

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Courting Disrespect, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 1995

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A Fond Farewell, Bruce Ledewitz

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Cruelly Unusual, Bruce Ledewitz

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Pa. Justices Were Wrong to Fill Spot, Bruce Ledewitz

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Perspectives on the Law of the American Sit-In, Bruce Ledewitz

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Recent Developments in Pennsylvania Death Penalty Law, Bruce Ledewitz

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The First Stone of the Death Penalty, Bruce Ledewitz

Submissions from 1994

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How to Prevent Another Larsen Affair, Bruce Ledewitz