Roger Pilon on Natural Rights, Unenumerated Rights, and the 14th Amendment

Constitutional Conventions

Roger Pilon holds the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. Before joining Cato in 1988, Pilon held senior posts in the Reagan administration and was a national fellow at the Hoover Institution. Between 1989 and 2019, Dr. Pilon served as director of Cato’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, which he founded.

Dr. Pilon joins Jon and Rob to talk about unenumerated rights, natural rights, and the Founders' conceptions of Lockean theory in constitutional self-government.