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	Harry V. Jaffa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the 1964 presidential campaign Jaffa served as a speechwriter to Republican candidate Barry Goldwater, and is credited with suggesting that Goldwater quote in his nomination acceptance address Cicero's famous expression, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is not a virtue."
		He is a student of Leo Strauss and is the leader of what are often called the "West Coast Straussians," a branch of the Straussian movement.
		The Claremont Institute, a conservative think-tank associated with the Claremont Colleges, is founded to promulgate Jaffa's vision of statesmanship and his understanding of the American project.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Jaffa (423 words)

	FT March 2000: Harry V. Jaffa: Crisis of the House Divided (1959) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Harry V. Jaffa has few peers as a student of the American Founding and none as the expositor of the Declaration of Independence and the statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln.
		Jaffa countered with an elegant philosophical and historical exegesis of Lincoln’s thought, beginning with the Lyceum Speech of 1838 and culminating in the celebrated debates with Stephen A. Douglas during the Illinois senatorial campaign of 1858.
		Jaffa rejects the jurisprudence of the so—called "living Constitution," but he understands, in ways that Bork, Rehnquist, and Scalia apparently do not, that simple majoritarianism is no cure for the vice of judicial usurpation.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0003/articles/jaffa.html (708 words)

	Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution
		Jaffa, the supposed defender of morality against relativism, in fact supports principles that are empty of content until some wise statesmen, quintessentially Lincoln, deigns to fill in the blanks as he wishes.
		Jaffa appears to believe that from the mere recognition that human beings and beasts differ in nature, some proposition about the immorality of slavery follows; he thinks that those who question this cannot acknowledge that human beings have a distinct essence.
		Jaffa gives no argument that the provisions he terms "compromises" were intended to have less force than anything else in the Constitution; nevertheless, he is certain that he has grasped the true intent of its Framers.
	www.mises.org /misesreview_detail.asp?control=71&sortorder=issue (1416 words)

	Freespace: Harry Jaffa, Homosexuality & the Natural Law:
		Harry Jaffa believes that unaided reason-nature demonstrates that homosexuality is not just wrong, but wrong along the same grounds and on the same level as slavery and genocide (perhaps that thesis by itself, so self-evidently absurd on its face, is enough to impeach Jaffa’s argument, but let’s examine his logic nonetheless).
		Ultimately Jaffa's case fails because he inadequately explains why ignoring the distinction between genders is morally wrong along the same lines as ignoring the man/beast distinction.
		Jaffa's logic would lead us to believe that for a man and woman to swap their natural roles, whatever they are, violates the natural law as does homosexuality.
	sandefur.typepad.com /freespace/2004/12/harry_jaffa_hom.html (2173 words)

	Jaffa on Equality, Democracy, Morality
		Harry Jaffa is one of the most distinguished of the students of Leo Strauss.
		Jaffa states his argument for equality perhaps most fully here: "'That all men are created equal' arises from our experience of a class of beings called 'men.' We abstract from the experience of a number of individual human beings the common noun 'man'....
		Jaffa himself recognizes almost the identical point: "A community of Christians (or of a particular denomination of Christians) may ask themselves whether, in compelling non-Christians (or Christians of another denomination) to join their church, they are violating the golden rule not to do unto others what they would not have others do to them.
	www.lewrockwell.com /gordon/gordon5.html (15561 words)

	Book Review of Harry Jaffa’s A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War by ...
		Jaffa’s long and distinguished career (he is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Political Philosophy Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University) has been devoted to the intellectual articulation, clarification, and defense of the principles of the American Founding and their perpetuation by the words and deeds of Abraham Lincoln.
		Jaffa maintains that it was Lincoln’s conviction that the Declaration of Independence reflected the divine government of the universe, which therefore set the pattern for the moral and legal order of constitutional government.
		Jaffa makes the case that secession was nothing but a form of flmail, the disruption of republican government by a minority that did not get its way at the polls.
	www.ashbrook.org /publicat/oped/owens/00/jaffa.html (1638 words)

	The Claremont Institute: Harry V. Jaffa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Harry V. Jaffa is a distinguished fellow of The Claremont Institute.
		Distinguished fellow Harry V. Jaffa comments on the ongoing argument between columnist Joseph Sobran and Jack Kemp regarding the character of Lincoln as a man and as a statesman.
		Distinguished fellow Harry V. Jaffa reflects on the continuously peaceful transfer of power from 1800 to today — with Lincoln's presidency in particular — and the meaning of constitutional democracy in light of the recent election.
	www.claremont.org /about/staff/jaffa.html (1401 words)

	The Claremont Institute: Jaffa's Lincolnian Defense of the Founding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jaffa emphasizes the gravity of the quarrel by showing that the agenda of the South before the election of 1860 was extremely aggressive, in three ways.
		Jaffa's answer: It is true that the Founders' doctrine requires the separation of church and state, although not in the extreme sense in which liberals today understand that phrase.
		Jaffa argues that the theory of the founding was a doctrine of divine right — the divine right of the people to form their own government.
	server.claremont.org /writings/011031west.html (8236 words)

	Jaffa - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jaffa, Israel is a historic port city on the Mediterranean Sea.
		Jaffas (candy) is a trademark for a specific orange-flavored candy with a soft chocolate center.
		Jaffa is a tradename for oranges in Britain.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Jaffa (144 words)

	Jaffa on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The rebuilt city of Jaffa was conquered by the Arabs in 636.
		Harry V. Jaffa Crisis of the House Divided (1959).
		Jaffa Residents Have Conflicting Reactions to Patriot Missile Presence.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/J/Jaffa.asp (632 words)

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		For many years Jaffa, drawing upon his extensive scholarship on the political thought of Abraham Lincoln, has maintained that a valid jurisprudence of original intent must recognize that the principles of the Declaration of Independence inform the principles of the Constitution.
		Jaffa makes his case in a series of essays responding to negative commentary on his work by these adversaries on the right.
		Jaffa, of course, must deny that Taney created the notion of substantive due process because, in his view, a flexible, substantive approach to the due process clause can be traced to the Framer's understanding of the principles of the Constitution.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/jaffa.html (929 words)

	A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War
		Jaffa acknowledges that "in the debates with [Stephen A.] Douglas, Lincoln reiterates that he is not, and never has been, in favor of bringing about a perfect social and political equality between fls and whites" (p.
		Jaffa goes on at enormous length to support Lincoln's absurd claim that the Union preceded the states.
		Jaffa would be good enough to give us the dates in which Britain was part of the Empire.
	www.mises.org /misesreview_detail.asp?control=179 (2320 words)

	FT March 2001: To Battle Once Again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jaffa intended the work as a definitive reply to the then—revisionist argument that in 1858 there was no substantial difference between the positions of Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas, and that therefore Lincoln’s “house divided” speech unnecessarily stirred passions culminating in an unnecessary war.
		In the last year of his life he claimed that “the light of science” was already proving that “the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs” and a favored few ready to ride them.
		What most horrifies Jaffa about Alexander Stephens and John C. Calhoun is their attempt to justify slavery on the “scientific” grounds that fls are biologically suited for nothing else.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0103/reviews/mckenna.html (1033 words)

	A New Birth of Freedom
		Jaffa spends the majority of his book deconstructing a number of Lincoln speeches in order to test their logic, verify their philosophical truth, and illustrate their relationship to the ideas of the Founding Fathers.
		In doing so, Jaffa hopes “to promote a climate of opinion in which the alienation from the principles of the Founding Fathers may be overcome, so that we may once again understand the true measure of Lincoln’s greatness and through him repossess our inheritance of the genuine blessings of liberty” (p.
		Jaffa contends that Lincoln correctly and justifiably elected to employ reasoned argument and force of arms to prevent the abandonment of these fundamental moral principles and save the Union.
	personal.tcu.edu /~SWOODWORTH/Jaffa-NBOF.htm (569 words)

	Contra Jaffa and Strauss
		Reading the exchange between Harry Jaffa and Joe Sobran and the incisive commentary by David Gordon brought home the specifically Straussian silliness of Jaffa's portrait of Lincoln.
		Jaffa's attribution of his own views on race to Lincoln is an intellectually unjustified act, particularly in view of the paucity of supporting evidence.
		Unlike the relatively prudent Marxists, who do not stray into Trotskyist fantasy, Jaffa and his school cannot praise the primitive forerunner of their doctrines, as those who glimpsed a truth that would only become fully manifest to a later age.
	www.lewrockwell.com /gottfried/gottfried15.html (435 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jaffa's history has, I think, these two themes: 1.The Declaration of Independence's statement that "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal" did, indeed, apply for Jefferson and his contemporaries to all people, including the then African-American slaves.
		Jaffa seems to lazily go over mountains of quotes, philosophers, and arguments, and he returns again and again to make the same points.
		Basically, Jaffa teaches that natural rights begin with the doctrine of the "state of nature." In this state, a person has the right to life and liberty, and to property in order to defend his right to life and liberty.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0847699536 (2041 words)

	Review of A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War. H V Jaffa.
		Jaffa regards the 1800 election (discussed in chapter 1) as the pivotal precursor to the 1860 election, for it was in 1800 that a free election between bitterly rivalrous parties first resulted in a peaceful transfer of power from one to the other.
		Here are some of Jaffa's most penetrating observations, grounding his account of the struggle for a just American republicanism in the perennial arguments of political philosophy, from Plato and Aristotle to Hegel and Nietzsche.
		By no means does Jaffa attempt a comprehensive review of the historical scholarship on the founding, on Lincoln, or on the antebellum period, which some may see as a fault but which would in fact have been a major distraction from the tightly focused discussion Jaffa provides.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /GENOCIDE/reviewsw77.htm (1573 words)

	The Imaginary Abe
		Jaffa thinks that he and Lincoln have, between them, demolished the case for secession.
		Jaffa may be surprised to learn that much of my critique of Lincoln, as I will present it in my book, King Lincoln, is drawn from the evidence of his own recent book, A New Birth of Freedom.
		Jaffa tries to make Lincoln sound like an avatar of the Founding Fathers, but about all he took from them was a set of snippets – "All men are created equal," "consent of the governed," etc. – from which he wrung inferences they would have rejected.
	www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/imaginary_abe.htm (3085 words)

	Commentary Magazine - A New Birth of Freedom by Harry V. Jaffa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		...It seems that Jaffa has been so long in the maze of his own thoughts on these weighty issues that he has forgotten where the entrance is...
		...Jaffa himself argues that the modern Supreme Court, in its reluctance to endorse the idea of natural law, has grasped the essence and significance of the Declaration of Independence no better than did Roger Taney...
		...To this criticism Jaffa would probably reply that he is simply extending to his readers the same courtesy he extends to his subjects, which is to treat serious matters seriously, and to leave no implication unpursued...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V111I2P72-1.htm (1247 words)

	Morality is Absolute: Interview with Dr. Harry Jaffa
		Harry Jaffa: The first thing I think I should say is why I regard homosexuality as against natural law.
		McKenna: Finally, Dr. Jaffa, those arguing for same-sex marriage, frequently base their case on the notion that fundamental human rights "evolve" as we develop a better understanding of human liberty.
		Jaffa: Regarding the question of human nature evolving, there is no evidence that human beings as possessed of certain faculties and powers have changed since the beginning of recorded history.
	www.tfp.org /tfc/Dr._Jaffa.htm (1663 words)

	jonrowe.blogspot.com
		Jaffa offers conclusions that cannot possibly be tortured out of constitutional text, history, or structure; inconsequential because, so far as is apparent, his argument has application only to one pre-Civil War case; disingenuous because he misrepresents not only that case but the Constitution itself.
		HARRY Jaffa has long engaged in a campaign of vilification against Robert Bork and William Rehnquist, a campaign I consider both sad and shabby.
		But Jaffa is a hard-core political conservative; he was an advisor to Senator Barry Goldwater at a time when the name Goldwater was a liberal epithet.
	jonrowe.blogspot.com /2005/03/jaffa-v.html (950 words)

	Sobran's --- The Imaginary Abe
		Jaffa tries to make Lincoln sound like an avatar of the Founding Fathers, but about all he took from them was a set of snippets — “All men are created equal,” “consent of the governed,” et cetera — from which he wrung inferences they would have rejected.
		Similarly, Jaffa can’t drop the idea that Abe Lincoln was on a lifelong “mission” — his word — to achieve Negro equality in America.
		I trust that by now it’s obvious to everyone but Jaffa that this Lincoln — his cherished crusader for equality — is a wholly imaginary being.
	www.sobran.com /replyJaffa.shtml (3017 words)

	Phillip S. Paludan \| Lincoln's Prewar Constitutional Vision \| Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 15.2
		Harry Jaffa is predominantly on target when he observes, "In a sense it is true that Lincoln never intended to emancipate the Negro: what he intended was to emancipate the American republic from the curse of slavery, a curse which lay upon both races, and which in different ways enslaved them both."
		Mario Cuomo and Harold Holzer (New York: HarperCollins, 1990), 57; Harry Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982); and Gary Jacobsohn, "Abraham Lincoln 'On This Question of Judicial Authority,'" Western Political Quarterly 36 (1984): 52–70.
		Jaffa, "The Emancipation Proclamation," 5, makes this point about the war years: "There has been a tendency to see the two phases of the war as corresponding to the phases in which, first the Constitution, and then the Declaration of Independence, were looked to for the principles which needed to be vindicated.
	jala.press.uiuc.edu /15.2/paludan.html (7446 words)

	Abratollah Harry V. Jaffa Issues Fatwa Condemning Joseph Sobran [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		LAREMONT, CA— Speaking for the Claremont Institute, the newly self-proclaimed "Abratollah" Harry V. Jaffa announced that he and his colleagues have issued a "fatwa" declaring Joseph Sobran an enemy of all that is good and right.
		This was done, declared the Abratollah Jaffa, because Sobran slandered the holy name of Abraham Lincoln and because he cast doubt upon the one true faith of the Union Indivisible.
		At a conference in Claremont, California, Jaffa acknowledged the extraordinary nature of this action, but claimed he and his colleagues had no other choice.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b7be4954a12.htm (788 words)

	Harry Jaffa - dKosopedia
		Harry Jaffa - Claremont Graduate School; student of Strauss at the New School, one of the most famous of the Americanist Straussians, which includes Walter Berns, Herbert Storing, and Martin Diamond.
		Jaffa is ranked as one of the most distinguished, famous, important students of Strauss.
		He is officially retired, though still contributes at Claremont and is still writing and publishing; his sequel to Crisis of a House Divided was recently published by Rowman & Littlefield.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Harry_Jaffa (97 words)

	Amazon.com: Storm Over the Constitution: Books: Harry V. Jaffa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In this brilliant new book, Harry Jaffa illustrates how judges under the influence of this definition of "original" intent particularly neglect the Declaration of Independence as a guide.
		Jaffa shows that this definition is, from the point of view of the American Founding, anything but original; moreover, it is openly hostile to the natural-rights theory of those who wrote and ratified the Constitution.
		Harry V. Jaffa is Professor of Political Philosophy Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0739100416?v=glance (644 words)

	Jaffa Bio: The Online Library of Liberty
		Harry Jaffa is a leading political philosopher and among the most influential scholars on Abraham Lincoln.
		His classic Crisis of the House Divided is a study of the Lincoln-Douglas debates that examines closely Lincoln's defense of the principles of the American Founding and Union.
		Jaffa is a Distinguished Fellow of The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, and the Henry Salvatori Research Professor in Political Philosophy, Emeritus 1989, at Claremont McKenna College and the Claremont Graduate School.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Intros/Jaffa.php (270 words)

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