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The Best Way To Teach Our Children About Freedom

The Best Way To Teach Our Children About Freedom

There are a variety of definitions of freedom. Most often people confuse freedom with license, or more particularly licentiousness. They assume that their personal wants and desires can be pursued without boundary or at least as long as they are ...

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The Real Story Of Scottish Independence

The Real Story Of Scottish Independence

In 1320 at Arbroath Abbey, Scotland declared independence or perhaps more accurately, reasserted its independence. Signed by 51 nobles, and accompanied by a letter from King Robert I, the epistles, written in Latin to the Pope, declared that the English ...

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The Covenant and Freedom (Part 2)

The Covenant and Freedom (Part 2)

Covenant was to be a lasting theme in Scottish Reformation and its aftermath, one in which they would go far beyond Calvin. —Douglas Kelly, The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World (1992)   Scotland became Europe’s first modern literate ...

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The Covenant and Freedom (Part 1)

The Covenant and Freedom (Part 1)

A long time ago in Ireland there lived a man named Columba who loved books. —Jean Fritz, The Man Who Loved Books (1981)   My son, I tell thee soothfastlie;/ No gift is like libertie;/ Then never live in slaverie. ...

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‘Impeach Obama’ Signs Sparking Arrests, Debates Over Freedom

‘Impeach Obama’ Signs Sparking Arrests, Debates Over Freedom

A Pennsylvania business owner feels that his First Amendment rights were violated when his landlord painted over an Impeach Obama sign. Brent Kovac maintains that the landlord threatened him with eviction if the sign was not taken down. Kovac says ...

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The Consent of Tyranny

The Consent of Tyranny

Locke held that all legitimate governments rest on consent. Society is not natural to man, but rather conventional. —Rousas J. Rushdoony, The Roots of Reconstruction (1991) Indeed, to respect autonomy is often understood to be the chief way to bear ...

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Liberty For All?

Liberty For All?

And what is liberty? Can it be limited, or is true liberty only unlimited liberty? —Rousas J. Rushdoony, Law and Liberty (1977) Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord/But you’re gonna have to serve somebody. ...

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The Progressive War On Homeschooling

The Progressive War On Homeschooling

Homeschooling families are the latest to become the target of the liberal attack on individual liberties. Millions of folks once legally immigrated to America because of the multitude of freedoms which were drafted into the Constitution by our Founding Fathers. ...

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No Need For Conspiracies When We Gladly Give Away Our Freedoms

No Need For Conspiracies When We Gladly Give Away Our Freedoms

Immediately after 9/11, there was a groundswell of support for anything the government deemed necessary to make us safer. American flags flew on every car and new legislation passed at a dizzying rate as everyone wanted to do something, anything, ...

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