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Natural Rights and the American Founders
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Defending Natural Right

Government on the basis of tradition and biblical morality is no longer possible in modern times, Michael Anton argues; our choices are either a rational morality independent of man's will, or nihilism.

The Modern Myth of a Lockean Founding
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The Modern Myth of a Lockean Founding

America’s Philosopher posits that Americans in the 20th century weaponized John Locke for their own ideological ends and read Locke into the American founding. This has given Locke an outsized importance as a means to an ideological end.