by Overton Window
"Micheal Wagner of Western Standard writes a philosophical and cautionary argument for an independent Alberta’s future constitution. It asserts that genuine individual rights can only exist if they are explicitly recognized as coming from the Judeo-Christian God, not from the state. Without this acknowledgment, rights become mere grants from government that can be revoked at will, turning the new nation into a tyranny. The piece contrasts the strong protections of the American Bill of Rights with the weaker Canadian Charter, praises the US founding principle that rights are “endowed by their Creator,” and warns that a purely secular constitution would make the state the supreme and unlimited authority over citizens. It concludes that Alberta must enshrine God as the transcendental source of rights or risk becoming worse than the Canada it left."