by Burt Folsom: Posted on BurtFolsom.com They want to improve society through increasing the power of the state. We all want to make the world a better place, but progressives choose to do so by increasing the power of the government to enact programs and redistribute wealth from rich to poor. The Progressive Movement started [...]
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James Madison on Property, 1792.
This term in its particular application means “that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.” In its larger and juster meaning, it embraces every thing to which a man may attach a value and have a right; and which leaves to every [...]
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The Role of Private Property in a Free Society
By Peter Boettke, Ph.D. “The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.” –Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. Few concepts have been more important for human survival, yet maligned as unjust by intellectuals, as the concept of private property rights. Since [...]
Posted in Economics 101, Private Property Also tagged Adam Smith, American Revolutionaries, Aristotle, Classical Economists, David Hume, Entrepreneurial, F. A. Hayek, George Washington, Ludwig von Mises, Peter J. Boettke, Private Property, Private Property Rights, Scottish Enlightenment, Socialism, Thomas Jefferson, Wealth of Nations, Western Civilization 2 Comments
The U.S. Constitution Forbids Congress From “Playing Favorites” With Federal Tax Money.
Has the federal government risen above its constitutional right to tax and spend billions of dollars on pork? What argument do we have which puts a seemingly all powerful federal government back in its constitutional place and restores the principle of federalism? James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, established a concept of dual sovereignty, [...]
