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The individuals who established the fundamental principles driving today’s democratic society were 18th-century Enlightenment thinkers. Among them, the core ideas were ‘natural rights’ and ‘social ...

Federal courts tend to avoid tackling unprecedented questions that strike at the heart of the separation of powers — the large and small mysteries left by the framers (and amenders) of the ...