It then belongs to princes to know how far they may extend their authority, and to subjects in what they may obey them . . . . —Junius Brutus, A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579) Temporal authority is ...
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The True Foundation of Liberty
“Only a Sith deals in absolutes” —Obi-Wan Kenobi Freedom and Nature Discussions about liberty have to begin with definitions and of course, include reference points. After all, no one is free to do anything and everything that they want to ...
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Republished with permission from Doug Tjaden I had the opportunity to speak for one hour on the subject of honest money at the Nullify Now! conference in Raleigh, North Carolina on Saturday, October 19th. Below are the remarks that closed ...
Read More »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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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. ...
Read More »A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants
None doth, then, resist the ordinance of God who resist the king in tyrannous acts. —Samuel Rutherford, Lex Rex, (1644) That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter ...
Read More »Faith And The Struggle For Liberty
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. —John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as ...
Read More »The Child Who Brought Liberty To The Western World
Let earth receive her King. —Isaac Watts Incarnation and Politics The word incarnate means “in the flesh.” For the pagan world, the State was God incarnate. The pagan world worshipped god-kings, and raised pyramids and ziggurats to the religion of ...
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The dawn of history reveals a humanity already civilized. —G. K. Chesterton Ooparts Ooparts are out-of-place-artifacts. It’s an unusual term coined by cryptozoologist, Ivan T. Sanderson. They are pieces of civilization, often of a very advanced civilization, that show up ...
Read More »Why a Biblical View of Time is Necessary for Liberty
This article is part of “The Biblical Foundations For Freedom” series. “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” —Douglas Adams “Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.” —Stephen ...
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