The Rights of Government - Political History, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Henry D Thoreau, what these men had to say about politics and the rights of government.

1. The Rights of Government;
American Politics
By; Chuck Thompson of TTC Media
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James Madison, 1792
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions,
and monopolies deny to part of it's citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their
occupations, which not only constitute their property in the general sense of the word; but are the
means of acquiring property so called.
James Madison, 1792
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort. This being the end government, that alone is
a just government which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.
Thomas Jefferson, 1785

2. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a
conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be
violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His
justice cannot sleep forever....
Jonathan Mayhew, 19th Century
We may safely assert that no civil rulers are to be obeyed when they enjoin things that are inconsistent
with the commands of God. All commands running counter to the declared will of supreme legislator
of Heaven and earth, are null and void: and therefore disobedience to them is a duty, not a crime.
F A Hayek, 20th Century
The authority directing all economic activity would control not merely the part of our lives which is
concerned with inferior things; it would control the allocation of the limited means for all our ends.
And whoever controls all economic activity controls the means for all our ends and must therefore
decide which are to be satisfied and which not.
Note the massive change that took place in the 20th century. In order to plan for our future, we must
look to our past and ask questions of our present situations.