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Woman’s Rights
Woman's rights denotes the body of legal and political claims asserting equal standing for women in property, contract, suffrage, education, employment, and family law. In the Anglo-American world the sequence...
White Privilege
White privilege is the claim that people classified as white receive unearned advantages in societies with a history of racial hierarchy, and that these advantages persist after formal legal discrimination...
Torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain on a person held in custody, for confession, information, punishment, or intimidation. European law abolished it as a judicial instrument during the...
Social Security
Social Security is the United States' federal old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program, financed by a dedicated payroll tax and administered by the Social Security Administration. Enacted in 1935 as...
Transgenderism
Transgenderism refers to the set of beliefs and practices organised around the idea that a person's gender identity, an internal sense of being male, female, or otherwise, can differ from...
Institutional Racism
Institutional racism is the claim that racial disadvantage is produced not chiefly by the prejudice of individuals but by the ordinary workings of established institutions: schools, courts, lending markets, and...
Social Privilege
Social privilege, in contemporary social discourse, names a set of unearned advantages that a person is said to hold by virtue of belonging to a dominant group, most often discussed...
Identity Politics
Identity politics is a mode of political organization in which people make claims and form alliances on the basis of a shared group characteristic, race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion,...
Abortion in Canada
Canada is unusual among Western democracies in having no criminal law on abortion at any stage of pregnancy. Since the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the existing provision in...
Illegal Immigration
Conservatives hold that a sovereign nation has both the right and the duty to control who crosses its borders, and that enforcing immigration law is a precondition of self-government rather...
Defense Spending
Defense spending is the allocation of public funds to raise, equip, and sustain a nation's armed forces. Conservatives regard national defense as the first duty of government and the one...
Homeschooling
Homeschooling is the practice of educating children at home under the direction of their parents or guardians, in place of attendance at a public or private school. In the conservative...
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Woman’s Rights
Woman's rights denotes the body of legal and political claims asserting equal standing for women in property, contract, suffrage, education, employment, and family law. In the Anglo-American world the sequence ran from married women's property acts in the 1830s through the suffrage victories of 1918 to 1928 in Britain and 1920 in the United States, to equal-pay and anti-discrimination statutes in the 1960s and 1970s. Conservatives supported and in several cases led these reforms, on the ground that the common-law doctrine of coverture — which merged a wife's legal personality into her husband's — was an inherited defect rather than...
White Privilege
White privilege is the claim that people classified as white receive unearned advantages in societies with a history of racial hierarchy, and that these advantages persist after formal legal discrimination has ended. The term entered wide academic use through Peggy McIntosh's 1988 working paper at Wellesley College, which listed everyday conveniences she attributed to her race, and moved into corporate and government training programmes across North America and Britain during the 2010s.1 Conservatives dispute the concept on three grounds: that it assigns moral debts by ancestry rather than conduct, that it collapses the distinction between statistical disparity and personal culpability,...
Torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain on a person held in custody, for confession, information, punishment, or intimidation. European law abolished it as a judicial instrument during the eighteenth century, and the Convention against Torture, adopted by the United Nations on 10 December 1984 and in force from 26 June 1987, prohibits it absolutely — admitting no exception for war, public emergency, or superior orders.3 The settled conservative position is that the prohibition holds. It rests on the Christian and natural law claim that a person retains a dignity the state did not confer and cannot withdraw, and...
Social Security
Social Security is the United States' federal old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program, financed by a dedicated payroll tax and administered by the Social Security Administration. Enacted in 1935 as the centerpiece of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, it pays benefits to retired and disabled workers and their dependents, drawing on contributions credited to two trust funds. The program is the largest single line in the federal budget and the principal source of income for most American retirees. Its long-term financing is the subject of a recurring policy argument: the combined trust funds are projected to deplete within roughly a decade,...