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Constitutional outrage

Secret, unaccountable rule

24 July 2021

9:00 AM

24 July 2021

9:00 AM

The Wuhan virus could never be sufficient reason to justify the evasion of much of the separation of powers and of checks and balances that make up the very basis, the signature, of Anglo-American constitutionalism.

It is an outrage that so much power be exercised secretly and unaccountably by small cabals of politicians and bureaucrats.

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