The journey of a 1,000 miles
Conservatives’ heroic Founders myth makes it difficult to understand what they deliberately created. The myth of men of extraordinary ability struggling to advance individual liberty frees the public to praise their good intent despite...
For multiple reasons the Articles of Confederation were inadequate, and Shay’s Rebellion was a catalyst for change. The weakness Shay’s Rebellion revealed was that a successful revolution in one state might spread to other...
Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (1754-1821) Dynamic Equilibrium: Why Tradition Fails Rather than evaluate policies, Burke’s conservatism blamed the public’s abandoning traditional values for the American and French Revolutions. For centuries gradual adjustments to...
Edmund Burke (1729-97) The Age of Enlightenment lasted from 1651 to 1779. It’s defense of reason and individual rights inspired the Declaration of Independence and American Revolution. However, before the Constitution was ratified the...
The Founding Principle of Enlightenment Centuries of intellectual darkness followed the fall of Rome. Religious wars and growing mercantile wealth exposed the limits of the old polity without providing new answers. Westerners typically imagine...
John Locke Part 1 of 5 The liberal river begins with the principles that inspired the Great American Experiment with democracy and limited government. As the framers put pen to paper economic self-interest compromised...
The black and White Aragvi Rivers in Georgia that do not mix, just as the principles of Individual Sovereignty and Sovereign Authority do not mix. Please, a little patience as I begin this story....
