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Thursday 30 July 2009

Indeed, the notion that government and “private” corporations ought to work cooperatively to foster economic improvement was inherent in the Whig tradition (which became our American rights-based tradition) from the start. It’s ironic that libertarians have come to see it any other way, distorting the views of Whig thinkers like John Locke and pretending that they believed in absolute private property rights, separate and protected from the government. For example, libertarians have attempted to marshal Locke in opposition to eminent domain takings. This ignores the fact that Locke is seen by legal history scholars as something like the grandfather of eminent domain law in the United States. The Death of Libertarianism? Part 4

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