Religion and the Death Penalty
February 4, 2008 · Magazine, Walter Berns
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether the Constitution allows the death penalty for the rape of a child.
Constitutional Scholar
Walter Berns
2 articles 1997–2008
Walter Berns was a distinguished constitutional scholar and political philosopher affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute and Georgetown University. He was known for his influential writings on constitutional law, the First Amendment, and capital punishment. He contributed occasional pieces to The Weekly Standard on topics including religion, law, and politics.
CLINTON LAYS AN EGG
July 7, 1997 · Walter Berns, Blog
DURING THE LATTER YEARS of a teaching career extending over more than four decades, I became accustomed to university students who could not spell or punctuate and did not know the rudiments of English grammar and syntax. " Supersede," I would write in the margin of many a term paper (and, before I…