George Buchanan: Radical Calvinist

Tags: Other Schools of Thought, Biographies

03/18/2010 Murray N. Rothbard

Over two decades before the Spanish Jesuit de Mariana, George Buchanan arrived, for the first time, at a truly individualist theory of natural rights and sovereignty — and therefore a justification for individual acts of tyrannicide, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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