tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post4956367801946739489..comments2024-03-28T10:44:30.518-06:00Comments on American Creation: Allan Bloom on the Moderns' Solid GroundBrad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-26155277044163001532020-10-12T14:48:08.369-06:002020-10-12T14:48:08.369-06:00"Americans are Lockeans"
I do not know ..."Americans are Lockeans"<br /><br />I do not know if this is true. Although Locke was often cited [mostly by people who had probably never read him in full] the manifestly erudite early Founder James Otis Otis wrote in his 1764 pamphlet, “The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved”:<br /><br />"Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution of 1688; nor on property, as was the assertion of Harrington. It springs from the necessities of our nature, and has an everlasting foundation in the unchangeable will of God."<br /><br />This is the unique American theory of rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence--the foundation of man's rights is "the laws of nature and of nature's God."<br /><br />http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-american-theory-of-rights-not.html<br /><br /><br />Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com