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Part 3: The Natural Law provides a key to resolving a Republican debate in the 1980s on the normative judicial power, Judicial Activism v. Judicial Restraint. We did the Preface and Chapter 1 last time (13 Nov 2025) and this time we continue with the first half of Chapter 2, pp. 7 to 16 at the top. Stephen Macedo published "The New Right v. The Constitution" with The CATO Institute in 1986. We're going to make a fair use and do a transformative reading of the book. CATO offers a free download of the book here: https://www.cato.org/books/new-right-v-constitution We'd like to thank Stephen Macedo for writing the book and to thank CATO for making this material available in publishing it. Consider supporting CATO with a financial donation so that they can continue providing quality resources for discussion. Tell a friend about their resources. The Republican Professor is a pro-appropriate-judicial-activism podcast. Warmly, Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. The Republican Professor Podcast The Republican Professor Newsletter on Substack https://therepublicanprofessor.substack.com/ https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/podcast/ https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/articles/ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRepublicanProfessor Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRepublicanProfessor Twitter: @RepublicanProf Instagram: @the_republican_professor

We cover immigration today with Mark Krikorian's excellent short book review in Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2025 on page 16 of the physical print edition you get in the mail four times a year when you subscribe for a nominal charge. We do a fair use and do a transformative reading of this material. We'd like to thank Claremont Review of Books for making this material available. We'd like to thank Mark Krikorian for writing it. As of the day of recording, the piece was available to the public on the website. Just go to the website and search "Mi Casa" and follow along. But it's best to subscribe so you get the hard copies in the mail. I highly recommend that you support CRB. Subscribe today at https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/ You won't regret it. The Republican Professor is a pro-self-government podcast. The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

We're introducing The Trivium today in conversation with Sister Miriam Joseph, Ph.D., who joins us through her writing teaching ministry in "The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric" originally published in 1937. We'd like to thank Sister Miriam Joseph for writing this and we'd like to thank Paul Dry Books 2002 for making this particular edition available to readers (edited by Marguerite McGlinn). We're doing a fair use and transformative reading, and would encourage you to go out and get yourself a physical copy of this book. Whether used or new, or even a different edition, if you can find it, get the book, a physical copy you can hold in your hand, and follow along with the discussion. The Republican Professor is a pro-Trivium-done-right podcast. The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Last week on the 22nd of December, Republican appointed federal Judge Roger Benitez (Cuban ethnicity) struck down the Democrat mandated lying to parents in the K-12 school system. Unusual behavior or conduct of a student at school isn't grounds for a violation of Constitutional rights, Benitez held in Mirabelli v. Olson (Filed 22 Dec 2025), available here : https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63d954d4e4ad424df7819d46/6949e11ea6bae817c8eaf637_Dkt%20%20307_MSJ%20Order.pdf We cover thru the first half of page 10. We'll continue from there next time. This episode includes a reading from Psalm 150, the very last Psalm, in the King James Version of the Bible. The Republican Professor is a pro-anti-tax-funded-abuse-of-parents podcast. The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

One can see the true heart--none at all--of the Democrats' so-called concern for the most vulnerable among us in Jaime Caetano v. Massachusetts. That is to say, one can see the Democrats' utter contempt for the most vulnerable among us, like Jaime Caetano. This case was decided decided just a month after Justice Scalia died, in March of 2016. They criminalized a woman for innocent conduct. The Republicans corrected this. Democrats and some Republicans have made the grave error of upending the true purpose of government : by criminalizing paradigmatically innocent conduct. Governments aren't supposed to do that. Where criminalization of innocent conduct has occurred, it needs to be decriminalized. All tyrannies have this in common : they criminalize innocent conduct. That's what makes a government evil. What do all tyrannies do ? They criminalize innocent conduct. The Republican Professor is a pro-non-and decriminalization-of-innocent-conduct podcast. The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.