Egalitarian interpreters of the Declaration not only empower the centralized state but promote a view of “equality” that shares a common ethical error with slavery itself—that legal castes of humans may be created and enforced against the liberty of others.
Joshua Mawhorter
Joshua Mawhorter is assistant editor of Mises.org. He was a summer fellow at the Mises Institute (2023) and a government/economics and US history teacher since 2016. Josh has a bachelor’s degree in political science from California State University, Bakersfield, a master’s in political science from Southern New Hampshire University, and a master’s in Austrian economics from the Mises Graduate School (2023). He has self-published a few books, including The First Constitution: The Articles of Confederation, Tyrannosaurus Debt: The Student Loan Crisis and How to Survive, and “An Austrian Critique of Modern Monetary Theory”, his thesis. He also enjoys teaching in the areas of theology, the Old Testament, church history, apologetics, and philosophy.
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The Declaration of Independence versus Egalitarianism -
Charles Lee: The Alternative “George Washington” You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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“Creating a Nation”: The Declaration of Independence and the Nation Anachronism
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The Public Goods Circular Argument
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The Great Reversal: How Social Contract Theory Became State Apologetics
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Hobbes’s Self-Defeating Theory
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Hobbes’s State: “Why Are You Hitting Yourself?”
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The Luck Fallacy and Luck Egalitarianism
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Stuff that Fed Officials Say -
Jesus and the Christian Socialist’s Problem of Evil
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A Note on “Currency” in Colonial America
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Barter, Media of Exchange, and Colonial America
