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Best of: Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Rights as Trump Side Constraints
In his new book, David Frum argues that the U.S. has a different approach to rights than other countries. He says it's closer to what we now call proportionality in legal theory. The founders took rights very seriously, but they didn't see them as unalienable and could not be taken away by courts or outside groups like dissenters," he writes. "Rights are inherently communitarian."
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