The James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding

Upcoming Events

  • 14 Apr

    2023 Leadership & the Law Awards Dinner

    , 6:00 pm
    We are pleased to invite you to a special evening on Friday, April 14 honoring Judge Janice Rogers Brown (ret.). Judge Brown is a longtime...
  • 15 Apr

    James Wilson XXIII: Senior Seminar

    , 9:00 am
    JWI will host our Senior Seminar group for a day of discussion about the Natural Law and our current jurisprudence. The seminar will launch with...

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Anchoring Truths - a James Wilson Institute project
The James Wilson Institute has sought to recover, and to teach again, those anchoring truths that provided for the Founders the moral ground of the law.
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Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of natural rights of its members, and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.
— James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1790