Proclaiming Liberty: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence.
The article reviews *Proclaiming Liberty: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence* by Timothy Sandefur, focusing on Sandefur’s argument that classical liberalism, particularly a libertarian interpretation of natural law, was the primary philosophical force behind the Americ...
| Publicado en: | Reason Papers Vol. 46; pp. 42 - 50 |
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