By DCT | January 14, 2010
By Andrew McCarthy at National Review Online on December 23, 2009 - better late than never!
At PointOfLaw.com, the distinguished University of Chicago constitutional scholar Richard Epstein provides a painstaking, withering analysis of the healthcare legislation wending its way through the Senate. He concludes that it is clearly unconstitutional. The essay is lengthy and, in [...]
By DCT | December 8, 2009
by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
“The expression ‘life, liberty, and property’ in the Fourteenth Amendment reflects the influence of natural law theory. The Bill of Rights assumes a doctrine of natural and unalienable rights. “A law which is not just is a law in name only,” says Augustine.”
Most people are confused by the use of the [...]
Posted in Natural Law | Also tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Cicero, Fourteenth Amendement, Greek Philosophy, Hegel, John Locke, Kant, Laws of Nature, Mortimer J. Adler, Natural Law, Plato |
By James Bovard
When Barack Obama was inaugurated on January 20, there was euphoria across the land and millions of people cheered in the streets of Washington. Many people are convinced that American democracy has been redeemed and that the federal government no longer poses a peril to individual rights. Since the people’s choice is now [...]
Posted in Democracy | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Democracy, George W. Bush, James Bovard, James Madison, King George III, Lysander Spooner, Rousseau, The American Revolution, The Federalist Papers, The French Revolution, The Social Contract |
When the For Freedom’s Sake blog was launched one of the primary goals was to explore, rediscover and expound the underlying ideas and principles that informed the founders as they forged a new “American” government. Thus our Mission reads:
To examine the philosophical ideas and principles which were foundational to the beliefs of the Founders [...]
Posted in Constitutional Government | Also tagged A Shining City on a Hill, American Exceptionalism, Anti-Federalist Constitution, Constitutionally Limited Government, Federalist Government, Randy E. Barnett, Republican for of Government, Russell Kirk, Seymour Martin Lipset, Steven G. Calabresi, The American Cause, U. S. Constitution |
