This principle that rights are derived from a superlative moral authority is necessary to the entire idea of rights preexisting a constitution or a nation state to begin with.
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Rational Liberalism: Self-Evident Truths
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Rational Liberalism: The Liberty Ethic
[T]he American conservative has less in common with the Founding Fathers, who contended that the proper amount to take from the people was practically nothing, and more in common with Karl Marx.
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Rational Liberalism: Defining Statism
For those that don't regularly deal in libertarian circles, the term "statism" is probably unfamiliar and has exactly the sort of eye glazing, niche political philosophy wonk ring that keeps libertarians perpetually at the fringes of the political culture, and they wouldn't be wrong.
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Rational Liberalism: Mirror, Mirror
Americans, regardless of Democrats or Republicans, by and large, no longer believe society can even function without a government to kneel before.
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Liberty 101: Rule of Law
Societies have organized themselves into rigid caste systems, where a select few possessed all power and all rights, and the populace possessed little power and few, if any, rights.
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Liberty 101: Property
So far, these abuses of "eminent domain" have benefited no one except trial lawyers who specialize in evicting widows from their homes.
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Liberty 101: Liberty
Suffice it to say that, to some at least, fundamental liberties are serious enough to die for. To others, they are more than enough reason to kill over. In each instance, it is often a matter of who shoots first.
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Liberty 101: Life.
Without the Right to Life, no other right or liberty even exists.
