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Religious Liberty–Self-evident Truth?0
- September/October 1999
- September 1, 1999
"Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free . . ." So begins the 1776 Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty, widely recognized as influential in the subsequent framing of the Constitution. Here clearly stated is the frequently unspoken assumption of free will and choice as an inborn ability possessed by all. Even more significant are
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Lessons From the Field of Blackbirds 0
- September/October 1999
- September 1, 1999
Death came with a frigid dawn and the thump of mortar fire over the sleepy town of Prekez, Serbia. Marie Kodra, 38, fled with her five children as Serbs fired into the houses. Avoiding the streets that were crawling with police, Mrs. Kodra led the children into the hills. Seeing a police patrol and hoping
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Obiter 0
- September/October 2000
- September 1, 1999
Far away from the damp and demoralizing influence of an Old World, where ethnic rivalry and religious compulsion stifled the spirit, the framers of the American Constitution and this new republic sought to perpetuate their larger vision. In anticipating this first editorial of my tenure as editor of Liberty I went back and reviewed some
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Another Look At the Separation Issue…That Wall 0
- September/October 1999
- September 1, 1999
The concept of separation evolved during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from two movements. The Enlightenment view, so ably expounded by people like John Milton and John Locke, emphasized liberty of conscience in religious matters and implied a minimum of state involvement with religion. As early as 1644 Milton affirmed in his Areopagitica, "Give me
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Op. Cit.0
- September/October 2000
- July 1, 1999
I was very interested to read "The Establishment Clause Assault" by Glenn Bergmann, in the March/April 1999 edition of Liberty. Mr. Bergmann eloquently illustrated the perverse paradigms in the Establishment Clause controversy. Frequently, we are tempted to believe that threats to religious freedom come only from Supreme Court rulings, such as Boerne v. P.F. Flores,
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How We Got From There to Here 0
- July/August 1999
- July 1, 1999
The conflict between the rights of the dying and the rights of those treating them is age-old. In the Hippocratic oath, physicians were forbidden to "give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor make a suggestion to this effect."[1] The issue did not die with the encoding of this prohibition at the
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