We all have grown up the notion that public school was just a given. We have come to expected them to be available  just like our fresh running water from our sinks; services provided by an altruistic  government for the benefit of the people. But was it constitutionally permissible in the first place?  Is it now constitutional? Was it the parents, the state or the federal government responsibility?  What about Common Core? What did President Thomas Jefferson say about forcing parents to support ideas and opinions that were contrary to their conscience? Join my conversation with Herb Titus, Constitutional, and Common Law Scholar as we discuss this and much more from a biblical worldview.

Herbert W. Titus is of counsel to the law firm of William J. Olson, P.C. where he is engaged in a general practice, with a concentration in constitutional, appellate, and administrative law.

Prior to his association with this firm, Mr. Titus taught constitutional law, common law, and other subjects for nearly 30 years at five different American Bar Association-approved law schools.

From 1986 to 1993, he served as the founding Dean of the College of Law and Government in Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Prior to his academic career, he served as a Trial Attorney and a Special Assistant United States Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and in Kansas City, Missouri.

Mr. Titus holds the J.D. degree (cum laude) from Harvard and the B.S. degree in Political Science from the University of Oregon from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

He is an active member of the bar of Virginia and an inactive member of the bar of Oregon. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, District of Columbia and Federal Circuits, the Army Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. In addition, his constitutional practice has taken him into federal district courts in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia and state courts of Colorado, Idaho, North Dakota and Texas.

He has appeared as a guest on radio and television shows and, for two years, hosted his own daily radio program, That's The Law, on the VCY America network. He has testified on constitutional issues before the U.S. Congress, and testified on state and federal constitutional issues before several state legislatures. His views on constitutional law and policy have received wide circulation on the Internet and other media, and among members of Congress, state legislatures, and public policy advocates and organizations. Mr. Titus serves as general counsel to the Michael New Action Fund.

Mr. Titus has written numerous articles, book chapters and constitutional studies and analyses. He is the author of God, Man & Law: The Biblical Principles, a widely acclaimed text on American common law and is available for purchase at www.herbtitus.com. His e-books on the common law and constitutional liberty (co-authored with Gerald Thompson) are available at www.lonang.com. Mr. Titus lectures and conducts workshops on American legal and constitutional history for civic groups, church conferences, and college campuses. He is also engaged as an instructor in a home schooling consortium, teaching a course on world views.

Mr. Titus and his wife, Marilyn, have been married 52 years and reside in Chesapeake, Virginia. The Tituses have four children and 15 grandchildren.

Websites Mr. Titus mentioned

• Law and Freedom
• Law of Nature and of Natures God
• LawMart