Rutherford Institute: Brushfire of liberty

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Rutherford Institute: Brushfire of liberty
-Ellis Washington

John Whitehead is a constitutional law attorney, an author and the founder and president of the civil-liberties organization the Rutherford Institute, based in Charlottesville, Va. This institution provides free legal services in constitutional and human-rights lawsuits. Its focus is on religious and free-speech cases, and also on educating the public on the original intent of the Constitution's framers.

Whitehead named the institute after Samuel Rutherford, a 17th century Scottish theologian who argued in a 1644 pamphlet titled, "Lex, Rex" (Law and the King) that kings must be subordinate to the law, because the rule of kings is derived from men, whereas the rule of law is derived from God. Rutherford's arguments about the authority of kings influenced the development of the concept of the "social contract" advanced by later philosophers such as Hobbes, John Locke, Rousseau and America's Founding Fathers.

John Whitehead's most famous case he tried was Paula Jones v. Bill Clinton in 1997; this pivotal case lead directly to perjury and obstruction of justice charges against President Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky case when he stated on national TV: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman. ..." Although we try very hard, who can forget that stained blue dress of Ms. Lewinsky?

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