[Splitting the Atom of Sovereignty](/posts/splitting-the-atom-of-sovereignty) described the American design as three layers of political authority, all tracing back to one root: the people themselves. [We the People](/posts/we-the-people) then asked what that root actually is — who counts as "We," and […]
The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, […]
Social Liberty