Law
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The American experience suggests restrictions on alcohol consumption are misguided.
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If you have no rights, you are as good as dead.
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Should people be allowed to parade naked in public? How can the refusal to permit this right be reconciled with a libertarian philosophy?
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How can authoritarian countries justify imprisonment of political opposition?
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Unequal representation under the single-member constituency first-past-the-post system.
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How the underemphasised committees of the legislative branch contribute to democracy.
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Should the American or British style of government prevail?
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Why not just state that nobody should be discriminated for or against based on what they believe?
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Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words cannot hurt us. Why punish freedom of expression?
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Phrased differently, should we be allowed to say we hate our country?
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Certain rights must be guaranteed; others must be presumed.
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Freedom of speech does not exist to protect popular opinion; it exist to protect minority and unpopular views.
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Arguing that something is right because the majority says it is right is, well, wrong.
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Why freedom of speech makes sense from an utilitarian and calculating point of view.
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The difference between a common law and civil law system is not widely known, but this difference matters in how easily the law adapts to different situations.
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