Dennis J Wieboldt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4626145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis J Wieboldt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis J |
| FAMILY NAME | Wieboldt |
| SIGNATURE | WIEBOLDT D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2036-3533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
But the original intent of the Constitution would be restored’: Catholic legal thought and the emergence of First Amendment originalism, 1947–87
Several scholars of twentieth-century American legal history have recently argued that originalism—a method of constitutional interpretation commonly associated with the conservative legal movement—first emerged as southern Republicans and conservative Democrats (many of whom were evangelical Protestants) reacted to the US Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v Board of Education. But southern opponents of Brown were not the only figures to hav…
Ideas With(out) Consequences: The Natural Law Institute and the Making of Conservative Constitutionalism During the Cold War, 1947–1951
Recent scholarship on conservative constitutionalism in the United States focuses near-exclusively on the development of originalism as a method of constitutional interpretation. Before conservatives turned to originalism to counter the perceived threats of an activist judiciary in the 1980s, however, this article demonstrates that conservatives employed a very different interpretive philosophy to counter a very different perceived threat. To do …
The “Crusading Fanatics” of American Law: American Jesuits and the Origins of the Neoscholastic Legal Revival, 1870–1960
During the early twentieth century, Ivy League legal scholars developed a positivist jurisprudential method known as legal realism. Concerned with the law’s relationship to social conditions, legal realism methodologically triumphed in the elite legal academy and brought to a close what one historian has described as the “decline of natural law” in American jurisprudence. Catholic legal scholars in the United States responded to this decline by i…
Civil Rights and Prophetic Indictment: A Discursive History of Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe’s On the Interracial Apostolate
In 1967, the superior general of the Society of Jesus, Pedro Arrupe, sent a memorandum on the American “racial crisis” to the Jesuit priests, brothers, and social institutions of the United States. Through appeals to the American legal and Catholic moral traditions, On the Interracial Apostolate articulated why Jesuits should strive to achieve racial equality, initiating a historic period of expansion in Jesuit civil rights programs. Given schola…
Shall We Settle for Anything Less Than Complete Equality?” Catholic Power and the First National Fight for Parental Rights in Education, 1947–1962
After the Supreme Court incorporated the Establishment Clause against the states in Everson v. Board of Education (1947), raucous national debates broke out between Protestants, Catholics, and Jews about the constitutionality of government aid to parochial schools. This article offers the first account of how these interconfessional hostilities shaped the Catholic Church’s parochial school litigation strategy after Everson . To undercut claims th…
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Civil Rights and Prophetic Indictment: A Discursive History of Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe’s On the Interracial Apostolate
In 1967, the superior general of the Society of Jesus, Pedro Arrupe, sent a memorandum on the American “racial crisis” to the Jesuit priests, brothers, and social institutions of the United States. Through appeals to the American legal and Catholic moral traditions, On the Interracial Apostolate articulated why Jesuits should strive to achieve racial equality, initiating a historic period of expansion in Jesuit civil rights programs. Given schola…
Shall We Settle for Anything Less Than Complete Equality?” Catholic Power and the First National Fight for Parental Rights in Education, 1947–1962
After the Supreme Court incorporated the Establishment Clause against the states in Everson v. Board of Education (1947), raucous national debates broke out between Protestants, Catholics, and Jews about the constitutionality of government aid to parochial schools. This article offers the first account of how these interconfessional hostilities shaped the Catholic Church’s parochial school litigation strategy after Everson . To undercut claims th…
Ideas With(out) Consequences: The Natural Law Institute and the Making of Conservative Constitutionalism During the Cold War, 1947–1951
Recent scholarship on conservative constitutionalism in the United States focuses near-exclusively on the development of originalism as a method of constitutional interpretation. Before conservatives turned to originalism to counter the perceived threats of an activist judiciary in the 1980s, however, this article demonstrates that conservatives employed a very different interpretive philosophy to counter a very different perceived threat. To do …
The “Crusading Fanatics” of American Law: American Jesuits and the Origins of the Neoscholastic Legal Revival, 1870–1960
During the early twentieth century, Ivy League legal scholars developed a positivist jurisprudential method known as legal realism. Concerned with the law’s relationship to social conditions, legal realism methodologically triumphed in the elite legal academy and brought to a close what one historian has described as the “decline of natural law” in American jurisprudence. Catholic legal scholars in the United States responded to this decline by i…
But the original intent of the Constitution would be restored’: Catholic legal thought and the emergence of First Amendment originalism, 1947–87
Several scholars of twentieth-century American legal history have recently argued that originalism—a method of constitutional interpretation commonly associated with the conservative legal movement—first emerged as southern Republicans and conservative Democrats (many of whom were evangelical Protestants) reacted to the US Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v Board of Education. But southern opponents of Brown were not the only figures to hav…
American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Catholicism and Religious Studies (2 works) · Constitutionalism (2 works) · Establishment Clause (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Legal positivism (2 works) · Legal realism (2 works) · Natural law (2 works) · Originalism (2 works) · Political science (2 works)