Natural Right in the Political Philosophy of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
When Professor Georges Gurvitch, the highly esteemed occupant of the chair of philosophy at the University of Strasbourg before World War II and th
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Substantive Due Process and Labor Law
Substantive due process refers to a judicial policy that substantively protects, under the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendmen
Intergenerational Invisible Hand: A Comment on Sartorius’s “Government Regulation and Intergenerational Justice”
In “Government Regulation and Intergenerational Justice,” Rolf Sartorius argues that some government regulation is justified in order t
Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society
Libertarians’ devotion to individual rights, and to laws in support of those rights, is unquestionable.
Medicine and the Crimination of Sin: “Self-abuse” in 19th Century America
Volume 1, Number 3 (1977)
What this essay will attempt to show is that while, during the 19th century, the prohibition of sexual immoralit
Justice Entrepreneurship In a Free Market
Modern libertarian thought is essentially deductive in character.
Libertarianism and Legal Paternalism
In his book Principles of Morals and Legislation, the eighteenth-century philosopher and legislator Jeremy Bentham divided all laws into t
Religion, Morality, and American Politics
Although historians had long missed the importance of religion in American politics, it has recently become a central topic.
Concepts of the Role of Intellectuals In Social Change Toward Laissez Faire
Having adopted a profoundly radical creed at odds with the ruling dogmas of their day, what did Lao-tzu, La Boétie, Quesnay, Turgot, and James Mill offer as a strategy for social change in the direction of liberty?
Toward a Theory of Legal Naturalism
In legal philosophy there is perhaps no older, nor deeper, conflict than that which exists between legal positivists and natural law advocates.
