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The Antisemitism Controversy Shows the Wisdom of the First Amendment

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When proponents of the Constitution were trying to persuade the American people to adopt it, they said that the only powers that the federal government could exercise were the powers that were expressly enumerated in the document itself. Since there was no power to infringe freedom of speech, for example, the federal government could not suppress speech. However, our American ancestors were not ...

Four Obstacles Facing Libertarian Proponents of Border Controls

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Libertarian proponents of immigration controls inevitably run into four obstacles in their support of this particular statist program: 1. The non-aggression principle. This is the core principle of the libertarian philosophy. It holds that it is morally wrong to initiate force against another person. Another way of stating the non-aggression principle is this: People have the right to live their lives any way ...

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