Locke ranks as one of the most influential political philosophers and Enlightenment thinkers. His theories on natural law, social compact theory, property, psychology, monetarism, and republicanism have had a profound effect on the development of the western world.
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The Biden administration continues to ramp up military intervention in Somalia.
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Personnel changes from administration to administration. And policy can shift as well. But government power once given never goes away.
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Today in history, John Laurens, who was a Revolutionary War hero and a close confidante of George Washington, was killed in the Battle of the Combahee River. He was also a southerner far ahead of his time who came up with a scheme to offer some slaves the hope of freedom.
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During the debates over ratification of the Constitution, Anti-Federalists repeatedly warned about the dangers of too much power. One of their prominent arguments centered around the maxim that once power expands, people with power never seem to voluntarily give it back.
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That means you can't rely on government to protect you. The only winning strategy is to resist government.
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When the government overleaps its constitutional bounds, it destroys its own foundation.
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The founders repeatedly told us the reasons for the 2nd Amendment - and the individual, natural right to keep and bear arms. Surprise - this top-4 isn’t about muskets, or hunting.
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No one can deny that the United States did not fall into the ocean during those 140 years when it didn’t have an Espionage Act. So, the question naturally arises: How did the country survive without an Espionage Act for almost a century and a half?
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The Continental Congress officially responded to the proclamation in December 1775, asserting that they had never been disloyal to the King, but that Parliament didn't have a legitimate claim to sovereignty over them because they were represented by their own democratically elected legislative bodies. The Congress also declared that the colonies would continue to resist the Parliament's violations of the British Constitution.
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