Harry V. Jaffa

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rights, without reserving a control over the supreme power, or a right to resume in certain cases, the surrender is void, for he becomes a slave..."

Theophilus Parsons, 1778

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"A republican form is the only one consonant to the feelings of the generous and brave Americans. Let us now attend to those principles, upon which all republican governments, who boast any degree of political liberty are founded...

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for no consent can be pleaded to justify the control, as any consent in this case is void. The alienation of some rights, in themselves alienable, may also be void, if the bargain is of that nature, that no equivalent can be received. Thus, if a man surrender all his alienable

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and a law resulting from the eternal fitness of things."

- Samuel West, 1776

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"The law of nature gives men no right to do anything that is immoral, or contrary to the will of God, and injurious to their fellow creatures; for a state of nature is properly a state of law and government, even a government founded upon the unchangeable nature of the deity,

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Harry V. Jaffa, 1918-2015 https://t.co/ssjCkOLzsy

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@_CWheatland "Indeed it is nature that attaches us to our families and therefore to our ancestors. But for Jefferson, no less than Aristotle, what men seek by nature is not the ancestral but the good."

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@_CWheatland Thanks for this; Its very good. As I read Jaffa - and you know I have read him quite a bit - customs, habits, manners, laws, are natural (in one sense). Political philosophy - natural right - clarifies and judges whether these natural things - the ancestral, our own - are good.

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"Political Philosophy is thus meant to guide political life, in light of its ultimate goal, 'the good life,' or the 'good society' which is the 'complete political good."

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Posting this for my dear friend and colleague, Khalil Habib. You won't meet a more genuine, kind, excellent teacher. He and his family are going through a horrific tragedy and could use our help.

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Thoughts on Lincoln's Birthday https://t.co/Yv4cugBRZO

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If everyman is his own historian, then there are as many histories as there are historians. If there are no shared standards of critical judgment, there are only subjective opinions about a past that itself ceases to have any objective existence.

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Human life, we might say, is set in motion by the demands of human virtue. These demands require political life. But the full demands of virtue transcend political life. In a sense, they transcend human life."

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(1) ICYMI: Glenn Ellmers, who is a fellow @ClaremontInst, joined the Anchoring Truths podcast to discuss his book, The Soul of Politics: Harry Jaffa and the Fight for America.

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[Ryan P. Williams @RpwWilliams]

Josh does some good work in the above piece. For those interested in a deeper dive, lots of good stuff collected here: https://t.co/NnHPDQG58w

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Glenn Ellmers: Are we two peoples and two regimes occupying the same country?
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