Originally published in 1908, this book aims at setting forth liberty, personal and national - not as a mere utility as is usually the case - but as an a priori moral necessity, the sine qua non of all true civilisation.

Cover title: Liberty, property & the foundations of the American constitution. Includes bibliographies and index.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX F Land Nationalisation Having admitted that it is desirable to nationalise the land, and having provisionally objected to the most popular scheme for so doing, it is not unreasonable that I should be expected to suggest some alternative scheme. There is at the present moment a great amount of agricultural land which could be purchased by the State at a very low price. This land could be bought piecemeal. It is always happening, and it will presumably continue to happen, that valueless lands become very valuable either unexpectedly (as in the case of the discovery of minerals), or owing to the deliberate "developing " of the land by the owners. While the first of these causes of value should not be left out of count, the second is the more important. In these days of cheap and easy locomotion the site of a town is of comparatively slight importance; and moreover the worst and most unproductive soils will do as well for building on as the best. The State then having purchased a certain area of cheap land could proceed to "develop" some part of this, the building and roadmaking being put out to contract. Buildings and land would thus both belong to the State, and would be worked by a Government Estate Office situated on the spot. There would be thus no leasing of land to builders or speculators,1 but in order to convenience prospective tenants the State would be at liberty to consider the wishes of individuals, and when desirable to build to order. If it is true that the State would make such a desirable landlord as some affirm, such a town if laid out in a healthy and attractive manner (as would be very possible under the circumstances), and if managed on business lines, ought to be very successful. The 1 This elimination of the...

The United States of America has been the greatest experiment for liberty the world has ever seen. It was an idea centered on limited government, decentralized power, and a strong moral fabric. America's journey has not always been perfect, but its founding documents recognized a set of ideas that are inspiring to every person because they embrace an eternal truth that every human has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that these natural rights were granted by God and not the government.Unfortunately, many of the founding principles that made America great have been slowly eroding away and the foundations for which liberty stands are now on shaky ground. Foundations for Liberty was written to help a generation rediscover America's foundations and what it means to truly be free and self-governing. America's future is in your hands and the freedom we cherish is now one generation away from extinction. It's time to awaken the sleeping giant inside of the American people! Embrace this book and reignite the flames of liberty. It's time to rediscover freedom in the 21st Century.

The attitude we take to power is almost invariably one of distrust, never more so than when it claims to be sovereign. And yet, we have always been drawn to sovereignty. Out of fear or fascination, we accepted that it was a condition of our liberty; that to assert ourselves as free, we would have to work not against but through sovereign power. This book retraces the history of the implication of sovereignty and liberty, an implication that has shaped the way we live together, as individuals and as political beings. Shedding new light on the work of key political and constitutional thinkers, including Marsilius of Padua, Hobbes, Hegel, Kelsen, and Schmitt, it identifies the conceptual operations that created sovereignty and shows how subjection to an absolute and undivided power came to be a source of meaning. At the heart of the analysis is the idea that sovereignty made reference to and relied upon a form of faith which aligned man’s political existence on law. Offering new and often controversial insights into the grounds of our attachment to sovereign power and into the crisis that is currently affecting its institutions, this book will appeal to students and scholars of law, politics, history of philosophy, and the social sciences.

Excerpt from The Foundations of Liberty We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spoke the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. In everything we are sprung. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.