John Locke: On the Dissolution of Government
The spark for this squib is the failure of western governments to protect the persons and property of their citizens from politically or religiously motivated criminals. Among just a few… Read more »
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Cato’s Letter #37: Character of a Good And of an Evil Magistrate, Quoted from Algernon Sidney, Esq.
Cato began his letter of July 15th 1721 with praise for the republican martyr, Algernon Sidney. Just a few decades after Sidney’s execution, open republicanism in Hanoverian England was still… Read more »
On Our Constitutional Compact
Beginning with “We the People” the Constitution is a compact, an agreement among equals, the people of the American civil society. The events of 1787-1788 could have been scripted straight… Read more »
Learning Locke: More on Cato’s Letters
As touched upon in Part I, and against the backdrop of an orchestrated South Sea Bubble, subsequent economic crash, and unpunished stock-jobbers, Cato interwove Lockean concepts regarding the laws of… Read more »
Learning Locke: An Introduction to Cato’s Letters
Thomas Jefferson famously adapted key passages of John Locke’s Second Treatise in his draft Declaration of Independence. An 18th century gentleman could hardly regard himself as learned without the ability… Read more »
Natural Law and the Rise of Trump
Check out Pope John Paul’s (1920-2005) observation of modern representative government: “Regarding democracies, certain demands which arise within society are sometimes not examined in accordance with criteria of justice and… Read more »