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February 1996 Click here for an index of On the Issues. Inequality and Ideology By Michael Novak James Madison, father of the U.S. Constitution, regarded the passion for equality as wicked, unrealistic, and destructive of free societies. Today's ideological debates about the fairness of income distribution need to move beyond questions of economics to consider the philosophical and theological ...