Henry [VIII], for reasons of state, made himself Supreme Head of the Church, and made it a capital offense to say that he was not. Then, finding it inconvenient that [St. Thomas] More should live, Henry had him put to death by perjury. We may hold that such a judicial murder is contrary to Divine and Natural Law; or we may hold that it was merely a matter of taste and policy how the all-competent state disposed of the lives and bodies of inconvenient persons. But we must decide for one or the other.
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Good for John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States, for chastising President Trump and lecturing him on the principles of our constitutional judicial system. After federal judge James Boasberg issued a restraining order prohibiting federal officials from sending Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, Trump and his minions went on the attack against Boasberg. Trump called the judge a “troublemaker and agitator” and ...
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Although Social Security is an unconstitutional relic of the New Deal, some libertarians never tire of proposing ways to reform the system. Social Security is ...
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by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss why freedom does not consist of efforts ...
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One of the great persistent political myths is the illusion that governments have it in their power to manipulate and control the marketplace. One ...
