{"id":5649,"date":"2010-06-10T14:14:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:14:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:14:27","slug":"conservatives-libertarians-legal-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5649\/conservatives-libertarians-legal-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives, Libertarians &#038; Legal Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media often paint non-liberal legal thinkers with broad brush strokes, a failure of reporting that hides some very important distinctions between libertarians and conservatives.\u00a0 That\u2019s why <em>Reason<\/em>\u2019s Damon Root does a public service in <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2010\/06\/08\/conservatives-v-libertarians \" target=\"_blank\">explaining the fault lines in right-of-center legal thinking<\/a> that are emerging over the most recent gun rights case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotuswiki.com\/index.php?title=McDonald%2C_et_al._v._City_of_Chicago\" target=\"_blank\"><em>McDonald vs. City of Chicago<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The Supreme Court\u2019s decision could land any day, so before it does, make sure to check out Root\u2019s cogent description of the politics behind the process of winning more freedom for individuals through litigation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s definitely worth the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media often paint non-liberal legal thinkers with broad brush strokes, a failure of reporting that hides some very important distinctions between libertarians and conservatives.\u00a0 That\u2019s why Reason\u2019s Damon Root does a public service in explaining the fault lines in right-of-center legal thinking that are emerging over the most recent gun rights case, McDonald vs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[928,549,641,1382,221],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-conservative","tag-gun-rights","tag-legal-theory","tag-libertarian","tag-mcdonald-v-city-of-chicago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5653,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions\/5653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}