by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 14, 2015 | Crime
The civil law concerns itself with disputes over contractual rights, the enforcement of commercial laws, and negligence. By contrast, criminal wrongs are marked by such a savage disregard for the rights of others that society as a whole has an interest in ensuring...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 14, 2015 | Crime
Theorists and practical men alike have generally agreed that the primary purpose of the state is to maintain order. But unless the state has the will and capacity to ensure order not only bad but eventually good people will flout its authority. The law-abiding are...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 12, 2015 | Business
Karl Marx did not abolish child labor or free the women from working in the coal mines in England—the steam engine and modern machinery did that. —Ronald Reagan. Speech to the First Conservative Political Action Conference, January 25, 1974. The government should not...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 12, 2015 | Business
If we look to the answer as to why, for so many years, we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on Earth, it was because here, in this land, we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 12, 2015 | Business
Countries are not rich in proportion to their natural resources. If you took a map of the world, put on it all the natural resources in each country, and thought that would give you a guide to the wealth of each country, you’d get it wrong—because if you look at...
