It's the Online Library of Liberty, a project of Liberty Fund.
This page looks especially good: Their "beginners page"
"The following texts have been selected as being particularly appropriate for those who are new to the study of individual liberty, limited government, and the free market. These works have been written as introductory works or for a broader reading public. Some appeared as newspaper or magazine articles, and some as lectures or talks."Check it out.
The Gunslinger
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Yes, one of the finest online sources of information there is! Also, don't miss The Founders Constitution, put on by it's sister site, The Liberty Fund, and the Univ. of Chicago. What is so great about both sites, is that they are not just data storehouses like Gutenberg.org, and several others, but that they provide so many paths to understand, relate and absorb their information, such as with the page you linked to.
ReplyDeleteTake a look at how it goes through the Constitution, as with the Preamble, there are a list of links below, taking you into the documents and ideas which the Founders themselves had in mind when writing and debating that section of the Constitution.
Reading the Constitution like this, gives you a clearer idea of what true Liberalism, as the Founders understood it, not the degenerate claptrap that goes by its name today, was, what they believed, and why - and more importantly, shows how we can and must defend it today.
To win the fight today, just as they did then, we have to understand its reasoning and the moral reasons why it is right and true, and why leftism is just as faulty, immoral and discredited today as it was in their day. Or in Frederic Bastiat's day (mid 1800's), see his "The Law" on the page you linked to. That and his "Economic Sophisms" (also on the same page), absolutely demolishes every single leftist argument you ever have, or ever will hear.
They haven't gotten any smarter, still stuck on stupid.
See today's (Sept 7, 2009) post on "stupid"!
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the great reference!