Posted in Classical Liberalism on Aug 12th, 2009
Arnold Kling discusses “real freedom”: The exercise of voice, including the right to vote, is not the ultimate expression of freedom. Rather, it is the last refuge of those who suffer under a monopoly. If we take it as given that the political jurisdiction where I reside is a monopoly, then perhaps I will have […]
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Posted in Classical Liberalism, Education on May 30th, 2008
An essay in response to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle’s Special Report on Rescuing City Schools 232 years ago last week, the first modern Constitutional protection of individual rights for citizens in North America was drafted by George Mason into the Virginia Declaration of Rights. The Virginia Declaration was the major influence on Jefferson’s penning […]
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