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Assessing Adler: The Weight Of Constitutional History And The Future Of Religious Freedom, Benjamin Berger
Assessing Adler: The Weight Of Constitutional History And The Future Of Religious Freedom, Benjamin Berger
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This article approaches Adler v. Ontario as a distinctively useful perch from which to survey the history and future of the constitutional interaction of law and religion. The case is positioned at a provocative place in the arc of the development of this interaction and the article uses the reasons in Adler to expose and explore some themes that shape not only our religion jurisprudence, but Canadian constitutionalism more generally. The article begins by examining what the majority's heavy reliance on religion's place in constitutional history suggests about the competing logics at work in Canadian constitutional life. That discussion leads …