Must citizens repay loans taken in their name that never served them? Kenya’s High Court is about to test a century-old doctrine lenders hoped was dead. By Patricia Adams for the Mero Tribune In Brief by Probe Media Kenya is putting an old legal idea to the test. The country’s High Court has greenlit a petition […]
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THIS WEEKEND: The conversation Albertans need to have is hitting the road. Tickets: http://TheLavigneShow.com/events Law professor Bruce Pardy didn’t write another political pamphlet. He wrote a constitution. Thirteen articles designed to lock government into limits it cannot rewrite, expand, or ignore. The type of architecture that keeps power on a short leash — forever. Thirteen […]
Alberta Separatism | Bridge City News What does freedom mean and what will it take for an independent Alberta to turn the page and chart a new era? Law professor and Articles of Freedom author Bruce Pardy reminds us that most of the rules that bind Albertans today already come from Edmonton, not Ottawa. Hand the […]
By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon, published by The Epoch Times For the original version of this commentary, see the publisher’s website here. The true tragedy of the Nepal Himalayan flood that killed more than 1,000 people (with thousands still missing), was not the mountain event itself but the international development industry’s climate-driven rush to […]
Liberty does not die in a coup; it dies when the courts, press, and civic groups that once protected it are rewritten into instruments of “national security.” By Sasha Gong, published by American Greatness / Center for American Greatness Can communism come to America? Until recently, most Americans would have dismissed the question as alarmist, […]
By Bruce Pardy, published by the Western Standard A free country must resolve a paradox: a state is needed to keep the peace, yet the state’s monopoly on force is also the greatest threat to liberty. Law professor Bruce Pardy argues that Alberta’s constitution should therefore do two unusual things to protect citizens and restrain […]
By Andrew Roman, Special to Financial Post “Every summer Canadians watch the same terrifying scenes unfold. Flames race through forests. Families are evacuated with only what they can carry. Firefighters battle blazes that seem almost impossible to control. Smoke from Canadian fires turns skies orange and disrupts life in the U.S., hundreds or even thousands […]
In these pages, law professor Bruce Pardy sets out 13 carefully crafted Articles that form the constitutional architecture of a free country. The design is intentionally simple. It does not try to administer life. It tries to secure it. The default flips from state power to individual freedom, leaving the state only with powers expressly […]
In this essay, published by the Fraser Institute, law professor Bruce Pardy contends that Canada’s property-rights crisis stems from constitutionally entrenched special status for Aboriginal peoples. The resulting two classes of citizens violate the principle that justice should be blind to lineage or ancestry, he argues. Drawing on the universal human history of invasion, migration, […]
Every political ideology claims to hold the formula for peace, prosperity, and human flourishing. Yet history reveals a recurring pattern: the concentration of power and the erosion of liberty. This paper by George Tomko, Ph.D., contends that the decisive factor is neither institutional design nor ideology, but the psychological and moral character of citizens—and that […]