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By Theoderek Wayne - July 24, 2002

The freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are the guiding moral principles of the U.S., as is the view that every man or woman is created equal. We may buttress these claims with John Stuart Mill's "harm principle" from On Liberty as a moral underpinning by recognizing that marriage is an essentially private institution (made…

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