So confident is Milosevic of his political and territorial gains that he is in the process of drafting a new Yugoslav constitution -- designed swiftly to codify the "voluntary" association of Serbian-dominated entities, by means of what might be termed an "All-Union Treaty" for Yugoslavia.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The result is salutary: Americans are beginning to understand the threat of shariah law, and even better, to understand the strengths of their own Constitution to protect the rights of free speech, the right to free association and to freely exercise or leave a religion, the right to bear arms, the right to due process and equal protection under the law for women and children.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Kagan's association with and enabling of Shariah is flatly at odds with the Constitution's stipulation that it is the supreme law of the land.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Kagan's Shariah problem

This year, the unions and business association chose to move the holiday on Dec. 6 celebrating the approval of the country's constitution following a four-decade dictatorship to a Monday rather than risk angering the church again by shifting the public holiday on Dec. 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

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