May 26, 2022
Imagine this. You are designing a new country and have a coin in your hand to flip. One side is anarchy and the other is tyranny. What do you do? You flip the coin and try to get it to land on its side. This is what our Founders were aiming for when creating our country. We are happy to have Professor Gordon Lloyd of...
May 19, 2022
Have you ever thought about our Constitution as a practical exercise in governance rather than an academic exercise? What that means is the Constitution addresses real problems accounting for human nature rather than viewing men through a utopian lens as virtuous “angels.” In Federalist 51, Madison tells us “if...
May 13, 2022
The Roman Empire, at its peak, spread from the Persian Gulf to England and encompassed all of the land adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea. How could an empire so large and powerful ultimately fall? What lessons from the Empire’s fall did our Framers recognize to influence the structure of our own country? According...
May 5, 2022
How did two 17th century European philosophers shape the various systems of government we see worldwide? Thomas Hobbes believed stability relied on a “Leviathan” government, an all powerful state to maintain order. John Locke wrote about unalienable rights and the role of government in protecting those rights.