Actually, it’s huge and is only equalled by common law. The reason is latitudinarianism, bottom-up governing, which is one of the main reasons Canada did not have the same reactions to British policies. It completely infused the decentralized federalist structure.
Actually, its huge and is only equalled by common law. The reason is latitudinarianism, bottom-up governing, which is one of the main reasons Canada did not have the same reactions to British policies. It completely infused the decentralized federalist structure.Im not a Protestant. So for me, the whole Protestant thing doesnt really matter, anyhow.
is an excellent dissertation on American conservatism. The distinctive feature of the book, in my takeaway, is how it asserts that Catholic doctrine is loaded with support for liberty. The difficulty, Evans {RIP :( ] asserted, is not in finding such sources but deciding which ones not to use.
- IMHO
- Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition
by M. Stanton Evans.Im not Catholic, and I went to
publicgovernment school. Reading Theme made me sense that there was some serious omitting going on, even back in the 1950s, in the teaching of US history. AntiCatholic, in this case . . .I had a Civics course back then, in which the teacher gave a homework assignment which had the punchline that the teacher critiqued my response by asserting that we like to use society as a synonym for government. I was utterly unconvinced, and it turns out that Thomas Paine put paid to that argument in 1776:
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.As I was standing up in that class, I would have loved to have been able to recite that - the opening paragraph + of Common Sense.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil;
IMHO conservatives should aggressively use the term society in its proper meaning; it fills a real need. For example I cringe when people say, the market decided this or that. No, society decided that, thru the mechanism of the market.