This is an American
Amidst the manufactured angst over President Trump’s enforcement of immigration law, I recalled a few passages from Locke in America1, by Jerome Huyler. As opposed to today’s social justice nonsense,… Read more »
Tag: John Locke
Self-Preservation Through Article V
In this post I draw a parallel between the Second Amendment and Article V. The Second Amendment grants nothing. It is through Natural Law, the Law of Reason, and not… Read more »
On the Pursuit of Happiness
An occasional criticism of Thomas Jefferson’s edited Declaration of Independence is the substitution of ‘pursuit of happiness’ for that of ‘property.’ Both are Lockean terms well-suited for our Lockean Declaration…. Read more »
Our National Daddy
The ideals of our revolutionary era were heavily influenced by the Enlightenment soldier, politician, ambassador, polemicist Algernon Sidney (1623-1683) and the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). They wrote their best works… Read more »
Belonging to Government or to God?
Like me, you probably did an eye-roll when you were a middle school kid and read of the charge in our Declaration of Independence that King George III intended to… Read more »
Diversity is Our Demise
Somewhere in the 1980s, “diversity is our strength” made its debut. At the time, I gaffed it off as another Leftist idiocy that would soon fizzle out. How wrong I… Read more »
Electoral vs. Sovereign Capacity: American Conventions
My last post touched on the religious, societal and political upheavals endured by 17th century England. The outcome was twofold: an English Bill of Rights crafted and ratified by a… Read more »
Proclamations are Not Laws
If any one man can be said to have intellectually armed the American colonists for rebellion, it was Algernon Sidney. So thorough was his impact that historians described his posthumously… Read more »
Keeping the Constitution: No Broken Windows Allowed
For those not old enough to know, New York City’s crime rate prior to the Mayor Rudy Giuliani era was so bad that a sci-fi movie, Escape From New York (1981)… Read more »
John Locke: On the Dissolution of Government (II)
In view of the increasing failures of national, state, local government from San Jose, CA to Sweden to protect their citizens from thugs, both secular and religious, where do innocent… Read more »