As 2011 approaches I have been thinking more and more about what I would like to study next year to continue to grow in my understanding of the philosophical, theological, legal and economic ideas that have shaped the U.S. and history in general. There is no shortage of books in print that can be added [...]
Category Archives: Laws of Nature
Ideas Have Consequences! What Ideas Will Influence You in 2011?
Also posted in Individual Liberty, Justice, Markets and Morality, Natural Law, Philosophy Tagged Bonhoeffer, Christianity, Greg Forster, Hadley Arkes, J. Budziszewski, James Davidson Hunter, Natural Law Theory, Robert P George, Scripture, The Public Square, Timothy Keller, Wayne Grudem Leave a comment
Interpreting the U. S. Constitution…What Did the Framers Intend?
Robert G. Natelson Professor of Law, David Mason Scholar The University of Montana School of Law The U. S. Constitution is the cornerstone of freedom in American which binds our government to the philosophical ideals spelled out in The Declaration of Independence as these self-evident truths, “…that all men are created equal, that they are [...]
John Locke on Liberty and Freedom
The “Second Treatise of Government,” written by John Locke, was composed between 1685 and 1688. His ideas had a great influence on the thinking of our founding fathers. While meditating on the following quote, ask yourself, where am I currently being affected by a violation of Locke’s idea of, “a standing rule to live by, [...]
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This Question of Legal Plunder Must be Settled Once and For All
This is my final post from the writings of Frederic Bastiat’s, “The Law.” Hopefully, through the discussion of the fundamental,, God given freedoms, which Bastiat has provided for us in “The Law,” you are able to more clearly identify the means by which the legal system is perverted resulting in the usurpation of the freedoms [...]
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The Results of Legal Plunder – Frederic Bastiat
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. [Emphasis added] What are the consequences of such a perversion? It would require volumes to describe them all. Thus we must content ourselves with pointing out the most striking. [...]
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Will We Become Victims Of Lawful Plunder?
As I continue to revisit Frederic Bastiat and his outstanding work, “The Law” one cannot help but benefit by his insights on the nature of man and the problems presented by our acting in unjust manners as it comes to the public square. Although, his insights were penned in 1850, Bastiat’s warnings are relevant for [...]
