Should U.S. military personnel obey an order from their commander in chief to invade Greenland?
The violations of international law such an invasion would cause make it clear what the answer should be: No.
Philip Allen Lacovara
Philip Allen Lacovara is the former Deputy Solicitor General of the United States for criminal and national security matters, Counsel to the Watergate Special Prosecutor and President of The District of Columbia Bar.
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Church and the Nutmeg State: What was behind the church-state clash in Connecticut?
New England is sometimes considered the birthplace of religious liberty in America because several of the early colonies were founded by adherents of denominations being persecuted in Europe in the seventeenth century. They saw the isolation of colonies in the new world as a haven to practice their faith.
But only their faith.