When James Madison was a member of Congress in 1791 and charged with drafting the Bill of Rights, he made two grammatical demands. One was that the word “the” precede …
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In the last days of East Germany, when government officials detected that their power was unraveling, they ratcheted up enforcement of the nation’s reporting laws. The reporting laws made it …
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Last week, the Supreme Court effectively abolished the right to assembly in three Southern states. By refusing to hear an appeal of a speaker accused of being liable for what …
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Americans need to be aware of the unbridled propensity of federal intelligence agencies to spy on all of us without search warrants as required by the Fourth Amendment to the …
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“I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) Holy Week was not a …
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“That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British …
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“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” –First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution When James Madison set about to draft the Bill of Rights — the …
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I spent last week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, or PASS. PASS is an organization of scholars that …
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“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, Mankind would be no more justified In silencing that one person, Than he, if he had the power, Would be justified in silencing mankind.” — …
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As the pre-trial hearings in the case of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others who are charged with masterminding the 9/11 attacks proceed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, …
