July 21, 2017
Ignorance and the Decline of Responsible Government in America
By Jack H. Burke
Since at least the time of Julius Caesar's coup in 49 B.C., man has surrendered his freedom to various strongmen who have offered to compromise liberty in exchange for swift political results. This tradeoff, a lapse in that "Spirit of Liberty," which Edmund Burke felt was the "greatest security of the people," is the despot's quickest and most ordinary way to power.
As Burke wrote in his 1791 "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly":
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