Natural Rights

Medical Politics During the Civil War

The Civil War’s immediate impact was felt mostly in America. It ended slavery, preserved the union, and in time reaffirmed the natural rights of man first proclaimed distinctly by the English physician-philosopher, John Locke (1632-1704). Locke is perhaps the foremost proponent of individual rights in the history of Anglo-American jurisprudence. He wrote that all human …

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Faria: Freedom versus Equality (Part II)

In Part I of this essay, we discussed the terms Freedom and Equality in accordance with Natural Rights theory and Constitutional governance, and then we summarized the ten planks of Karl Marx’s 1948 Communist Manifesto. We showed how our Constitutional Republic has been eroded toward a Social[ist] Democracy by the infiltration of those Marxist planks …

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