Is Natural Law Sufficient to Defend the Founding?

[Peter1469]

The book arrived this afternoon and I had a few minutes to read the intro and all I can say is those individualists who believe in radical autonomy and find it in the founding will not like this book. An excerpt from the intro:

It is rather clever- the Enlightenment thinkers managed to largely weaken the natural societal bonds that stood between the individual and the State while making people feel like that was a good thing.

We can be relieved that the current crop of progressive leadership is nowhere near as smart as those Enlightenment thinkers.

[Chris]

It is rather clever- the Enlightenment thinkers managed to largely weaken the natural societal bonds that stood between the individual and the State while making people feel like that was a good thing.

We can be relieved that the current crop of progressive leadership is nowhere near as smart as those Enlightenment thinkers.

At the time it seemed reasonable. They thought with constitutions you could grant the government only so much power and hold it there.

[jet57]

At the time it seemed reasonable. They thought with constitutions you could grant the government only so much power and hold it there.

Yeah, why would people want any more than they had in the 18th century?

sheesh!