Natural Law and Democracy: The Philosophy of James Wilson
Thoroughgoing philosophical skepticism undermines liberty by denying that law can be reasonable, and that justice can be known.
Roberta Bayer is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at Patrick Henry College and Garwood Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University.
|David Hume, despotism, James Wilson, John Locke, Natural Law, Republicanism, Thomas Hobbes
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