When a Society Chooses Freedom in an Unfree World

How The American System Reshaped The World Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Freedom exists in the absence of government control.  We are free when we are able to worship, speak, write, make a living, and protect our families and property without fear that government agents will punish us for our actions.  America’s Founding Fathers embraced an expansive view of personal liberty that recognizes the inherent right of each person to do as he sees fit, so long as that person refrains from infringing upon the liberties of another. Right away, then, freedom...

Social contract theory was used to critique a form of the state, but was also used to legitimize the modern nation-state.