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A liberal democracy can survive for a while on institutional strength and widespread agreement. As long as most people are generally satisfied with how things are going (or have made peace with the status quo), it is easy to imagine that something like a social contract will keep things on track. Hamish MacAuley makes a persuasive case that many Canadians came of age politically between the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the 2008 financial crisis, when consensus was widespread and politics seemed optional, thus many chose to stay out. We abandoned democratic governing habits during prosperous times. Instead, we played politics. In response, McGill's Jacob T. Levy advocates for political action that rejects the status quo while also refusing to burn it all down or take our ball and go home. We should participate in politics, even if it is unsatisfying. When the foundations of our democratic structure or the rights of vulnerable people are jeopardized, it makes sense to delegate aut

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The government prevents our private sector from growing. That is it. In many areas, those limits are bundled in rules known as "green standards" or "sustainable design requirements," yet all of this adds up to more bureaucracy, higher expenses, and fewer housing units created.It is not that we should ignore the environmental consequences of our policy actions. We should. However, we should view urbanisation as a powerful tool in our struggle for a cleaner environment. It is rarely acknowledged, but one of the most essential things we can do as a country to ensure a clean environment is to drastically increase density in our major cities. When compared to rising density in city cores, urban sprawl (also known as suburbs) is tremendously inefficient and harmful to the environment.That is to say, this is not a national housing crisis. This is a major city housing challenge that medium and small cities are expected to address. The issue with this strategy is that we are compounding difficulties. Housing is being built further and further away from economic centers (developing Milton vs. old Toronto); infrastructure has not been planned for this sprawl; and as a result, more people are driving, requiring longer and less used power transmission lines, as well as less used water utilities, garbage services, and so on.If we wish to reach the order of magnitude of housing completions that this country requires in the coming decades while not causing significant environmental damage, the solutions all point to doubling or tripling the density of our largest cities.A federal administration that acknowledges this would be a solid start to make headway on housing in this country.The deadlock over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial reforms is, like much of Israeli public life, existential. Bibi's new law, whose first pillar prevents the Israeli Supreme Court from assessing whether elected officials' policies are "reasonable," has prompted opposition in nearly every major institution in Israeli society, including the media, judiciary, government, civil service, and military. And Netanyahu isn't finished yet. 

He has pledged several other reformsincluding modifications. 


to the judicial recruitment process and the implementation of a notwithstanding clause modeled after Canada's section 33.Opponents argue that Netanyahu's proposals will weaken a court that has functioned as a crucial moderating force. They believe that the reforms will result in more government subsidies and exemptions from military service for Israel's ultra-Orthodox. They are also concerned about the legal annexation of the West Bank and its Palestinian population. Many Israelis believe that Israel can only be two things: Jewish, democratic, or a territory. Opponents argue that weakening the court will undermine Israel's democratic natureTo their supporters, however, the reforms are an important corrective to a court that has arrogantly overturned laws and vitiated government appointments with broad support, and which has recently allotted itself a toolbox of powers that would make most other Western democracies blush—including the reasonableness doctrine, which Netanyahu's government repealedAdding to the general turmoil is the fact that Israel lacks a single written constitution, which was proposed and rejected by the country's founders due to the fractious nature of the population and the pressing need to establish a state in the first place. It instead has the so-called Basic Laws, which are quasi-constitutional statutes passed by a simple majority of Israel's Knesset. The priority of Basic Laws over Ordinary Statutes is hotly challenged.This does not, however, imply that Israel lacks founding texts outlining fundamental rights and demonstrating a consensus political culture. Israel has a Declaration of Independence.

Neil Rogachevsky and Dov Zigler's recent book.

Israel's Declaration of Independence: The History and Political Theory of the Nation's Founding Moment, focuses on this Declaration. The book is the first complete English-language analysis of the text and its earliest iterations, and it couldn't have come at a more appropriate time.Israel's inception Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's speech at the Tel Aviv Museum in 1948 began with a proclamation of founding:By virtue of our natural and historic right, and in accordance with the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, [We] thus declare the foundation of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel, to be called as the State of Israel.It goes on to detail the new nation's political principles and the contours of its core protected rights, directly linking these to Biblical history:The State of Israel aims to uphold freedom, justice, and peace as envisioned by its prophets. It will provide equal social and political rights to all citizens, regardless of religion, race, or gender. It will also protect religious sites and adhere to the principles of the United Nations Charter.The Declaration was issued on May 14, 1948, at 4:00 p.m., eight hours before the British Mandate expired, and in the shadow of a near-certain invasion by Israel's neighboring Arab governments. It was an ancient nation's first foray onto the world stage of modern politics (and the first Jewish state since the fall of the Judean Kingdom in 133 CE), ensuring "the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State" while also guaranteeing the rights of minorities—even those with whom they were at war.

The declaration makes reference to both the. 

Jewish people's connection to the land of Israel and their historical right following centuries of genocide and deportation, the most recent of which was "the catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people," the Nazi Holocaust.In the book, Rogachevsky and Zigler describe how the present nation of Israel came to adopt a Declaration stating that it would be democratic, rights-protecting, and Jewish. The book begins with a draft written by Mordecai Beham, a Tel Aviv lawyer schooled in the United Kingdom. Overwhelmed by the gravity of the task before him, Beham consulted with an erudite rabbi from Cleveland named Shalom Tzvi Davidowitz and ended up with a first draft that incorporated Deuteronomy, the spirit of the American Revolution, some principles of the rule of law from the English Bill of Rights, as well as language from the United Nations Resolution 181, which was passed by the General Assembly in November 1947 and called for a Jewish state, an Arab state.

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