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iiclr-17516	Major, Marie-France	Comparative Analogies: Sullivan Visits the Commonwealth	1999	18	.pdf	application/pdf	8359	464	54	His position was that the constitutional guarantee operated so as to preclude completely the application of... defamation laws to impose liability in damages upon the citizen for the publication ofstatements about the official conduct or suitability of a member of the Parliament or other holder of[a] high Commonwealth office. THE COMMONWEALTH Sullivan to support its conclusion that defamation laws constitute effective tools for politicians to chill free speech.38 Having determined that existing defamation laws were unconstitutional, the plurality also invoked Sullivan to support its belief that the efficacious workings of representative democracy and government did not demand that all actors involved in political discussions be granted an absolute immunity.	cache/iiclr-17516.pdf	txt/iiclr-17516.txt