You Hear That Liberalism Lacks An Idea

Citizens Can Have Their Own Grounding In Their Comprehensive Doctrines, Whatever They Happen To Be.

Properly Understood, Then, The Desire To Act Justly Derives In Part From The Desire To Express Most Fully What We Are Or Can Be, Namely Free And Equal Rational Beings With The Liberty To Choose.

The Natural Distribution Is Neither Just Nor Unjust; Nor Is It Unjust That Persons Are Born Into Society At Some Particular Position. These Are Simply Natural Facts. What Is Just And Unjust Is The Way That Institutions Deal With These Facts.

How Did Madison Get Separation Through Virginia And Later Congress? The Baptists, The Presbyterians, And The Smaller Sects Hated Jefferson; To Them He Was A Secularist Of The Worst Kind. But Madison Could Get Jefferson's Bill Passed Because The Baptists, The Presbyterians, And Smaller Sects Who Were Excluded In New England And In The South Got Together For Their Own Protection.

It Is Of First Importance That The Military Be Subordinate To Civilian Government