The Unionist bargain suggested that our culture of rights could be upheld only under certain conditions: we would have to tolerate the rights of others, even when the exercise of those rights didn’t accord with our preferences; we would have to support the existence of robust social institutions, outside the scope of government, to inculcate and reinforce virtue; we would have to stand up and be counted when rights were invaded, and pigheadedly warn an overarching government about the consequences for such invasion; and we would have to cultivate a healthy spirit of economic freedom, a taste
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