In these essays, the author discusses topics as diverse as who owns the minerals at the bottom of the seas, why a good education should not prepare us for life, and how great commercial nations--including our own--show a "dire ignorance" of the link between property and liberty. Through them all runs a guiding theme--that our constitution is much deeper and richer than most Americans understand.
Robert A. Goldwin is a resident scholar of constitutional studies at AEI.
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Principles and Politics--An Introduction
Part I: The Constitution: Old Ideas in a New World Order Part II: Rights: Brief, Negative, and Duty Free Part III: Political Philosophy: The Key to Locke Part IV: International Diplomacy: Who Owns the Unowned? Part V: Liberal Education: Doubting Mother, Country, God
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