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  • Canadian Conundrum0

    Americans doubting the truth of Tocqueville’s great paradox of liberal democracy, that equality will overwhelm liberty once a state attempts to impose its version of perfect equality for all, need only look a few miles north to Canada. An experiment to test that proposition has been in progress here since 1982, when the Canadian Charter

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  • Canada's Justice Minister Wants to Change the Constitutional Meaning of Marriage0

    On June 10, 2003, Chief Justice Roy McMurtry, of the Court of Appeal of Ontario, issued a judgment ordering the government of Canada to recognize that the word "marriage" in Canada's Constitution must include both heterosexual and homosexual couples. In response, Canada's justice minister, Martin Cauchon, decided to introduce an amendment to Canadian law to

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  • Can We Talk?0

    Talking to people we disagree with is hard. We should do it anyway. Disagreement is nothing new. As long as there have been choices, there have been differences of opinion. While it has always been gratifying to engage with like-minded people, there seems to have been a fundamental shift in recent years: a reluctance, or

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  • Can Executive Order Restrict Liberty?0

    Some have the opinion that the War and Emergency Powers Act is an extra constitutional decree that enables a president to bypass Congress when needed, and employ whatever measures are deemed appropriate. Yes, some radical fringe groups have made misleading statements about executive orders from time to time, and the Internet is abuzz with much

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  • Can a Book Harm Religious Freedom?0

    The question has an almost obvious answer: Yes, a book can, given enough circulation and acceptance, harm religious freedom. Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, the literary "work" of a frustrated artist and World War I veteran, remains a perverse inspiration to those who cherish hatred. Its publication prepared the way for the National Socialists in Germany,

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  • By What Authority?0

    There is a great principle at the heart of the movement to strike the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance—and from our national customs, our currency, and our public ceremonies. It has very little to do with atheism. It has a great deal to do with authoritarianism. The philosophy behind America's founding is

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