Fundamental Rights

Constitution Check: Must Gay Marriage Be a Fundamental Right in Order to Exist?

Lyle Denniston | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Constitution, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Proposition 8, Proposition 8 Lawsuit, Fundamental Rights, Politics News
Lyle Denniston

If a right gains "fundamental" status, it would, indeed, sweep all across the nation, nullifying every contrary law or court case. But the test poses a high hurdle for anyone seeking to establish a new right.

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President Obama, Religious Freedom And The Arab Summer

Joseph K. Grieboski | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Religious Freedom, Arab World, Arab Spring, President Barack Obama, Fundamental Rights, Middle East, Religion News
Joseph K. Grieboski

The new Arab world must revere human rights unfailingly, chief among which is the right to religious freedom.

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Facebook: Keeping Your Friends Close and Strangers Even Closer

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mad Men, Facebook Privacy, Facebook, Fundamental Rights, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Technology News
Christina Gagnier

From the days of their initial launch, as a network just for college students to connect with other college students, Facebook has been the master of illusion.

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Should Children Have A Right to Die?

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Law, Progressive Values, Fathering, Children, Oncology, Washington, Raising Children, Oregon, Terminal Illness, Legislation, Civil Rights, Politics, Right to Die, Mothering, Disease, Cancer, Medicine, Health Care, Bioethics, Pope Pius XII, Assisted Suicide, Fundamental Rights, Massachusetts, Pediatrics, Euthanasia, Babies, Death, Parental Rights, Human Rights, Health, Liberalism, Hospitals, Children's Health, Thomas Aquinas, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

Pediatric aid-in-dying is coming out of the medical closet. In an era of parental rights and child welfare, maybe we are finally ready to grant suffering minors the right to die.

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