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.
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Roberta Bayer is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at Patrick Henry College and Garwood Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University.
Engraving by J.B. Longacre after "miniature in possession of Mrs. Hollingsworth." Published in John Sanderson, Biog. of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, 1823. (Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com)