Inaugural Post - Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Frederic Bastiat, Statesman, Essayist and Economist, was a renowned champion of individual freedom. In 1850 he published his most famous and enduring work, “The Law.” Bastiat, like others, recognized that the greatest single threat to liberty is government. Like the signers of our Declaration [...]
B Y L AWRENCE W. R E E D
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is [...]
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 endowed by [...]
Edwin Meese III, the 75th Attorney General of the United States, writes in an essay entitled, “The Meaning of the Constitution,” that “Part of the reason for the Constitution’s enduring strength is that it is the complement of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration provided the philosophical basis for a government that exercises legitimate power [...]
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the [...]
