Jack Ryan: You broke the law!
Ritter: You are such a Boy Scout. You see everything in black and white.
Jack Ryan: No, no, no! Not black and white, Ritter. Right and wrong!
--Clear and Present Danger
Have been impressed with articles that I've read in the CATO Journal. Academic, interdisciplinary studies of policy in a liberty context. Am now a subscriber. Given my evolving research interests, I may even consider a future submission...
Meanwhile, there is a particularly fine piece at the end of the current issue authored by CJ editor James Dorn titled "The Scope of Government in a Free Society." Recommended reading. At the end of a well cited section on 'Law, Liberty, and Justice,' Dorn concludes:
"In sum, law, liberty, and justice are inseparable. Law is the use of force to protect our natural rights to life, liberty, and property; liberty is the freedom to act within the law; and justice is the safeguarding of property broadly conceived." (p. 634)
I find this an exceptional summary of law, liberty, and justice in the context of a free society. As Dorn demononstrates, it is consistent with scholarly thought and with the thoughts of the Framers.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
~Samuel Adams
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
~Samuel Adams
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