by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 12, 2015 | Natural Law
Governments should not interfere with their citizens’ freedom to travel wherever they want. The internal passport systems of China and other despotic countries are a gross violation of individual rights. Likewise governments that prevent their people from leaving...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 12, 2015 | Natural Law
In a free country a person should be able to wake up in the morning and do as he chooses, so long as he is not injuring others. If a man wants to have twelve children, have no children, live as a hermit, throw a party, leave his lights on, build a palatial mansion,...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 12, 2015 | Natural Law
The care therefore of every man’s soul belongs unto himself, and is to be left unto himself. But what if he neglect the care of his soul? I answer, what if he neglect the care of his health, or of his estate, which things are nearer related to the government of the...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 12, 2015 | Natural Law
Restrictions on cross-border trade are a grave infringement of the individual’s liberty to buy from, or sell to, whoever offers him the best price. Frédéric Bastiat explained: “A man who would consider himself a bandit if, pistol in hand, he prevented me from carrying...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jun 19, 2015 | Natural Law
The property which every man has in his own labor; as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable … . To hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his...
