All Posts Tagged With: "freedom of movement"
Can We Tell Those Huddled Masses to Scram? Immigration and the Constitution
In 1873 some Presbyterians in Kentucky invited a young Canadian to be their pastor. Tensions in the border state were still high following the War of Southern Independence, and the congregants hoped that a neutral outsider could pacify folks not only within their own church but even across denominations. Rev. A.B. Simpson succeeded so well [...]
1Nov2006 | Becky Akers | 27 comments | Continued1914 and the World We Lost
Ninety years ago this month, on June 28, 1914, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and his wife, Sophie, were assassinated by a Bosnian-Serb nationalist in the city of Sarajevo. It served as the spark which set off the events that started World War I later that summer. It also [...]
1Jun2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedChina’s Peasants Suffer Under Apartheid
China operates an apartheid system that divides its citizens into separate worlds according to whether they were born in rural or urban areas. After reforms in South Africa and the collapse of the Soviet Union, few other countries have residency controls. While world opinion rightly denounced apartheid in South Africa, few complaints were registered against [...]
1Jun2002 | Christopher Lingle | 2 comments | Continued-
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