How Americans gave up their own republic

By Bruce Pardy, published by the National Post

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The United States was the land of the free. Limited government. Checks and balances. Separation of powers. The Bill of Rights. But America has instead become a managed society. Its government dominates the lives of its people. How did it go wrong? Lots of bad steps helped to transform the American republic into a managerial state. Here are nine of the moments that sent the ship off course.

Read this commentary in full at the publisher’s website here.


Bruce Pardy is executive director of Rights Probe and professor of law at Queen’s University.

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