“The Frenchman Jean Jacques Rousseau penned a chilling warning coupled with a summation that amazingly describes America’s political landscape today.”
In addition, the late Dr. Francis A. Shaeffer, a great intellectual, wrote A CHRISTIAN MANIFESTO (1981), which also could have been written yesterday because of his accurate predictions for where our nation was going as it became secularized. I have been rereading it and I am shocked at the accuracy of the predictions, especially where he foresaw an authoritative government run by an elite and an “Imperial” Supreme court which would not function according to the Constitution. If you read this book, buck up, because it is scary..However, we must frame our problems if we are to have a prayer of working to make things better.
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I’ve just discovered Wordsworth Donisthorpe — Law in a Free State (1895).
From The Forum at the Online Library of Liberty.
“The Liberty and Property Defense League
“The latter third of the nineteenth century in England was a period of advancing government intervention. With growing alarm, Whigs and Tories observed the adoption of measures which served to circumscribe the rights of contract and property. Moreover, the extension of the franchise begun in 1867 slowly transferred effective control of the Parliament from aristocratic and commercial hands into those of the middle and working classes. The newly eclectic electorate could not be stimulated to express the kind of opposition to interventionist proposals which disposed of the Corn Laws in 1846.
“If liberalism was to survive in this altered electoral environment it must persuade the masses of its benefactions and refute the claims of its enemies. In 1882 the Liberty and Property Defense League was formed to do just that. In 1891 it published the collection of essays which was to become its manifesto under the title, A Plea for Liberty.”
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1471&Itemid=287
Interesting that last night these kinds of articles were the 1st presented by Google.
Tonight the first articles are about his activities in cinematography.