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Children of Illegal Immigrants Are Not U.S. Citizens Edward J. Erler
Category: National Affairs Published: September 2009
". . . It is difficult to fathom how those who defy American law can derive benefits for their children by their defiance--or that any sovereign nation would allow such a thing."
 
Does Diversity Really Unite Us? Edward J. Erler
Category: National Affairs Published: September 2018
How does diversity strengthen us? Is is a force for unity and cohesiveness or a source of division and contention? Does it promote the common good and friendship that rests at the heart of citizenship, or does it promote racial and ethnic division. . . .?
 
Gunning Down Personal Freedom Edward J Erler
Category: National Affairs Published: July 2013
"The notion of collective rights is wholly the invention of the Progressive founders of the administrative state, who were engaged in a self-conscious effort to supplant the principles of limited government embodied in the Constitution."
 
Is the Constitution Color-Blind? Edward J. Erler
Category: Law & Justice Published: July 2004
". . . Class remedies, such as affirmative action and racial set-asides, assume that all members of the 'monolithic white majority' are guilty of racial class injuries and all members of 'discrete and insular' minorities are victims of such injuries."
 
Self-Willed Delusion Edward J. Erler
Category: Worldview Published: January 2017
"…Sanctuary cities [are those] that refuse to cooperate with Federal authorities in detaining illegal-alien criminals. This is the most baffling policy that can be imagined, as it results in criminals deliberately being released into public…"
 
Supreme Decisions Ahead Edward J. Erler
Category: National Affairs Published: November 2011
While the Tea Party probably is our best hope, its adherents will have to learn that the task is not to weaken the power of govt--it is to confine the govt to the exercise of its delegated powers that was the legacy of the founders.