[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

...the moral case for economic freedom didn’t emerge ex nihilo in the various Enlightenments. It was already part and parcel of significant currents of Western thought that long precede the world of John Locke.

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I honestly did not know that.

The Founders' notion of Rights can be traced all the way back to Francisco Suarez. The idea of natural law goes back even further, to the Medieval Scholatics, like Aquinas.

[Bigg Red]

Thank you for that information.

While I was aware of the Medieval origins of describing natural law, I guess I just never really grasped the economic side of it.

(Truthfully, I have never been very well informed when it comes to economics.)