HeyJaredFirst Principles with Bruce Pardy
Professor of Law at Queen's University, Exec Dir. Rights Probe. Writing about the law, liberty, individual autonomy, the tentacles of the managerial state, individualism vs. collectivism, and the first principles of classical liberalism.
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Alberta needs a different kind of constitution (opens the original)
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My new little book, Articles of Freedom, is out. It outlines a proposed constitution for an independent Alberta, based upon my earlier piece in the C2C Journal. Below is the book’s preface. It explains why a different kind of constitution is necessary, not just for Alberta, but for any country that aspires to be genuinely free.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rQF8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.
How the American Republic became a Managerial State (opens the original)
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It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The United States was the land of the free. Limited government. Checks and balances. Separation of powers. The Bill of Rights. But America has instead become a managed society. Its government dominates the lives of its people. How did it go wrong? Lots of bad steps helped to transform the American republic into a managerial state. Here are eleven of the moments that sent the ship off course.1. Residual powers: The “necessary and proper clause”, 1788The first Am
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