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The Talented, The Well-Born, The Well-Educated Do Not Deserve Special Privileges: Pelagianism’s Influence on American Political Philosophy

“Perhaps the most eloquent contemporary statement of Pelagian freedom appears in an opinion from the United States Supreme Court, in a passage written by former Justice Anthony Kennedy. In 1992, in a case called Casey v. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, he wrote this: “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s…

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