Mises Daily
Author:
Gregory Bresiger
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Democracies have had their share of wartime civil libertarian outrages, despite the guarantees of constitutions and bills of rights. In Britain , at the outset of World War I, the passage of the Defense of the Realm Act--an act that destroyed the liberties of many Englishmen--led to such an environment of repression that even the English monarchy