by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | The Rule of Law
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal —The Declaration of Independence America’s Founding Fathers were referring to the natural law; that each of us, from the citadel of our minds, looks out upon the world with the same consciousness,...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | The Rule of Law
The rule of law means that government must never coerce an individual except in the enforcement of a known rule, it constitutes a limitation on the powers of all government, including the powers of the legislature. —Friedrich Hayek. The Constitution of Liberty, 1960....
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | The Rule of Law
The nature of man is so frail, that wheresoever the word of a single person has had the force of a law, the innumerable extravagances and mischiefs it has produced have been so notorious, that all nations who are not stupid, slavish and brutish, have always abominated...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | The Rule of Law
Freedom of men under government is, to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power erected in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, where the rule prescribes not; and not to be subject to the...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | Property
The courts The protection of property rights requires: a system of contract law and tort law that upholds real, personal and intellectual property rights; a rigorously enforced criminal code that outlaws theft, fraud, trespass, vandalism, and other deliberate...
