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Under Magna Carta the King cannot imprison a freeman without being convicted by a trial of his peers (1215)
No freeman shall be taken or [and] imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor...
Anthony de Jasay asks whether states should be invented if they did not already exist (1985)
The state, under either the contractarian or the Marxist hypothesis, has got all the guns. Those ...
Mises on the public sector as “tax eaters” who “feast” on the assets of the ordinary tax payer (1953)
The financial embarrassment of the main European countries is predominantly caused by the bankrup...
Jefferson on how Congress misuses the inter-state commerce and general welfare clauses to promote the centralization of power (1825)
I see, as you do, and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branc...
Lance Banning argues that within a decade of the creation of the US Constitution the nation was engaged in a bitter battle over the soul of the American Republic (2004)
Within three years of the inauguration of the new federal Constitution, America’s revolutionary l...
Bernhard Knollenberg on the Belief of many colonial Americans that Liberty was lost because the Leaders of the People had failed in their Duty (2003)
One of the points particularly stressed in the writings in defense of liberty was that liberty, o...
John Stuart Mill on the need for limited government and political rights to prevent the “king of the vultures” and his “minor harpies” in the government from preying on the people (1859)
To prevent the weaker members of the community from being preyed upon by innumerable vultures, it...
Milton on Eve’s discovery of the benefits of the division of labor in the Garden of Eden (1667)
And Eve first to her Husband thus began. Adam, well may we labour still to dress This Garden, sti...
Kant on the natural right to seek happiness in one’s own way (1791)
No one has a right to compel me to be happy in the peculiar way in which he may think of the well...
Robert Filmer thought that the idea of the “consent of the governed” would inevitably lead to anarchy (1680)
Since nature hath not distinguished the habitable world into Kingdomes, nor determined what part ...
Lord Acton on the destruction of the liberal Girondin group and the suicide of Condorcet during the French Revolution (1910)
During the agony of his party, Condorcet found shelter in a lodging-house at Paris. There, under ...