Commentary
When a public emergency strikes, officials respond in panic. They often don’t remember what they learned from previous emergencies.
A man wears a mask as he arrives at Penn Station in New York on Aug. 2, 2021. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images
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Rob Natelson
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Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution” (4th ed., 2025). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.” He also researched and wrote the scholarly article “Virgil and the Constitution,” whose publication is pending in Regent University Law Review.
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