Natural Rights
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- Exegisis: Natural Right and History by Leo StraussAn exegisis on the opening of the work by Leo Strauss.
- Locke, Natural Rights, and the Sharon StatementThe Sharon Statement, drafted by Young Americans for Freedom in 1960, is a representative of the Lockean natural rights tradition. It defends immutable natural liberties, the sanctity of private property, and the necessity of free markets devoid of state interference.
- Locke Versus Calhoun on Natural RightsJohn C. Calhoun attempted to defend slavery by attacking John Locke's idea of natural rights and the accompanying concept of a state of nature whence these rights are derived. Mr. Stolyarov refutes Calhoun's argument and vindicates Lockean natural rights.
- Philisophe Ideas and the Development of the United StatesThis essay explains how the Philisophe ideas of Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, and Benjamin Franklin were pivotal to the development of the modern society of the United States.
- Paine and Mill's Differing Views on IndividualismFrom the most superficial standpoint, Thomas Paine and John Stuart Mill were two British men who wrote on liberty.
- World AffairsLeaders of each country must decide what world affairs they are to be involved in.
- An Analysis of the Violations of Natural Rights Entailed by MurderThis essay uses the libertarian theory of property rights to explain why murder harms not only its direct victim, but also everybody who valued some kind of association with that person and why such harm is indeed a violation of the rights of those other individuals.