Archive - On Policy and Reason

Is Democracy the Best We Can Do?

The Philosophical Arguments for and Against Majority Rule.

21 hrs ago • Bryan Eisenbise

Polygamy and the Forgotten Fight for Religious Freedom.

A Legal History of the Nineteenth-Century Campaign against Mormon Polygamy and Its Absence from the Civil Rights Narrative

Jul 5 • Bryan Eisenbise

June 2026

The Social Contract

A General Survey of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Improbable Recipe for a Truly Free Republic.

Jun 28 • Bryan Eisenbise

Human Nature and The Utility of Government

A Survey of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Anarchism, and the State of Nature

Jun 21 • Bryan Eisenbise

The Origins of Obscenity Regulation

The Legal Justification for Regulating Obscene Speech

Jun 19 • Bryan Eisenbise

Creating a Selective Liberty (1 of 4)

The English and Colonial Origins of Inequality in American Law

Jun 1 • Bryan Eisenbise

Perfecting an Exclusionary Nation (2 of 4)

Justice Marshall's Institutionalization of a Constitutional Order

Jun 1 • Bryan Eisenbise

Building a Classist Economy (3 of 4)

The Legal Construction of a Market Economy, 1819–1837

Jun 1 • Bryan Eisenbise

Turning a Constitution on Itself (4 of 4)

Ideological Collision and Attempted Reconstruction.

Jun 1 • Bryan Eisenbise

More about me and my research interests.

Jun 1 • Bryan Eisenbise

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