/by Amanda Hughes 458 589 Amanda Hughes Amanda Hughes2020-03-10 23:53:152020-03-11 07:12:26April 30, 1789: Inauguration of George Washington as First President of the United States of America Guest Essayist: Craig Bruce Smith From the United States capitol of New York Citys Federal Hall, Congress passed one of the earliest acts of the seven-months-old federal government: a pivotal piece of legislation for the defense of the new nation and its people
Just as the rights asserted in the Declaration follow the account of natural rights given by John Locke in his Essay on Civil Government, often called the Second Treatise, so too Locke there defines liberty as an action within the bounds of the law of nature, distinguishing it from licentiousness, which he defines as the condition in which mens opinions are not the product of judgment or the consequence of reasonbut the effects of chance and hazards as a mind floating at all adventures, without choice and without direction. That last sentence comes from Lockes most philosophically rigorous book, the Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Virtue, Individualism, and Self Interest Rightly Understood Much could be said about the prescience of Alexis De Tocqueville, reflected especially in his classic work, Democracy in America
