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James Edwards, Founder and Executive Director of Conservatives for Property Rights, is author of the book, To Invent Is Divine: Creativity and Ownership. A Lincoln Fellow (1998) with the Claremont Institute and former speechwriter at the Republican National Committee, Dr. Edwards authored the monograph "Property Rights: The Key to National Wealth and National Security" and has been published in the Washington Times, Investor's Business Daily, Fox Business, RealClearPolicy, and IPWatchdog, among other media outlets. He received the Eagle Award (2017) from Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund. Edwards appears as an expert in the award-winning documentary film "Innovation Race" (2022).
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Aug 7, 2026 ∙ 3 min
The Filibuster: Principle Over Expedience
In a recent debate of South Carolina candidates in the GOP primary election for U.S. Senate, three of the five contenders present espoused the demise of the Senate’s filibuster rule. Each indicated that he or she would eagerly work to eliminate this quintessential procedure preserving unlimited debate. Why would they embrace such a dramatic step, erasing the Senate’s hallmark distinction of two centuries? Especially given its strong, principled conservative support for this important element...
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Jul 1, 2026 ∙ 8 min
The Declaration, the Vine and Fig Tree, and 250 Years of American Independence
"The Continental Congress asserted independence and self-government. Those brave Americans had to fight a war against their overlord to secure liberty. And by God’s grace, they did. We have a nation formed by fallen men."
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May 29, 2026 ∙ 3 min
A Hearing to Advance the UnETHICal Way of Upending Hatch-Waxman
On June 4, the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property will hold a hearing titled “Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access.” This hearing appears to be pretext for promoting legislation that would dangerously weaken biopharma patent rights: the ETHIC Act. This bill, which Conservatives for Property Rights opposes, prohibits drug innovators from asserting more than one patent in a “patent group” in patent litigation. The ETHIC Act denies enforcing allied patents...
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