Natural Rights

An exegisis on the opening of the work by Leo Strauss.

The 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.

John 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.

This 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.

From the most superficial standpoint, Thomas Paine and John Stuart Mill were two British men who wrote on liberty.

Leaders of each country must decide what world affairs they are to be involved in.

This 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.