John Locke - Philosopher of American Liberty: Why Our Founders Fought for "Life, Liberty, and Property"

Swanson, Mary-Elaine

ISBN 10: 0983195730 / ISBN 13: 9780983195733

Verlag: Nordskog Publishing, 2012

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Mary-Elaine Swanson has done an invaluable service for this and subsequent generations by resurrecting awareness and presenting an accurate knowledge of John Locke and his reasoning through an uncensored view of his life, writings, and incalculable influence on America. This book will help Americans understand the importance of Locke’s thinking for American constitutionalism today.

You will learn the real meaning of the “law of nature” as it was embraced in Colonial America, and the separation of church and state embraced in the Constitution. The Founding Fathers looked to Locke as the source of many of their ideas. Thomas Jefferson considered Locke as one of the three greatest men that ever lived.

Locke’s contributions to American Liberty can clearly be seen interwoven in our colonial Declarations of Rights, paraphrased in our Declaration of Independence, and incorporated into our Constitution and Bill of Rights. The Declaration is born of the extensively studied and widely taught Treatises On Civil Government by John Locke. There Locke reasoned the very purpose of forming civil government is the protection of property, and that “life, liberty, and property (pursuit of happiness)” are not three separate rights but intrinsically one great and inalienable right he called “property”—which begins with the life of the individual, then his liberty which is essential to his productivity, followed by the right to enjoy the fruits of his labors without fear that the government will confiscate his property. These inalienable rights are from God and legitimate government has no authority to take them away but is chartered in fact to preserve and protect liberty.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Mary-Elaine Swanson (1927–2011), a historical researcher, educator, and speaker, wrote over 80 short biographies from original research in primary sources, in addition to her award-winning major biography, The Education of James Madison: A Model for Today. As Resident Scholar for American Colonial Studies she co-authored The American Covenant: The Untold Story book and film with Rev. Marshall Foster of The Mayflower Institute, now World History Institute; then as vice-president of the American Christian History Institute she developed a Study Guide to The Christian History of the United States of America, Vol. 2: Self-Government with Union, by Verna M. Hall. Her many presentations and articles included “James Madison and the Presbyterian Idea of Man and Government,” published in Religion and Political Culture in Jefferson’s Virginia, “The Monroe Doctrine and the Hemisphere of Liberty,” and “The Law of Nature in John Locke’s Writings: A Break with Classic Natural Law.”

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Titel: John Locke - Philosopher of American Liberty...
Verlag: Nordskog Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good