All Posts Tagged With: "feudalism"

Liberty and the Power of Ideas

A belief that I stress again and again is that we are at war—not a physical, shooting war, but nonetheless a war that is fully capable of becoming just as destructive and just as costly. The battle for the preservation and advancement of liberty is a battle not against personalities but against opposing ideas. The [...]

25May2011 | Lawrence W. Reed | 9 comments | Continued

Did Locke Really Justify Limited Government?

John Locke (1632–1704) was a physician, statesman, and political philosopher, filling that last office in a dry, “empirical,” and militantly antipoetic English mode. Locke’s stock has risen and fallen over the years. Contemporaries called him a Socinian (a precursor of Unitarianism), a deist, a Muslim, and an opportunist. Later critics have seen Locke as the [...]

24Feb2010 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 15 comments | Continued

The Subsidy of History

A considerable number of libertarian commentators have remarked on the sheer scale of subsidies and protections to big business, on their structural importance to the existing form of corporate capitalism, and on the close intermeshing of corporate and state interests in the present state capitalist economy. We pay less attention, however, to the role of [...]

1Jun2008 | Kevin A. Carson | 16 comments | Continued

Europe Meets America: Property Rights in the New World

When Europeans arrived in the Americas and began to claim the rich lands they encountered, they brought with them an equally rich European tradition of property law and justifications for establishing property rights. Today these are often mistakenly lumped together into the law of conquest, sometimes in an attempt to cast modern titles into doubt [...]

1Jan2007 | Andrew P. Morriss | 2 comments | Continued

Land Rights: The 1990s Property Rights Rebellion

Richard and Nancy Delene intended to create their own little wildlife reserve in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. They purchased over 100 acres of duck ponds and wildlife habitat and sought to improve upon it, making it a more attractive home for indigenous species. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources had other ideas. The Delenes were ordered [...]

1Feb1996 | Jonathan H. Adler | 0 comments | Continued
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