John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” explains how Memorial Day reminds us about the human cost of freedom. Contact Amy at [email protected]. Follow her at https://www.facebook.com/TheRightAOC and https://twitter.com/TheRightAOC.
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If we are wise enough to preserve the Union we may for ages enjoy an advantage similar to that of an insulated situation. Europe is at a great distance from us.
Federalist No. 5: Concerning dangers from foreign force and influence, Continued…
Considering our distance from Europe, it would be more natural for these confederacies to apprehend danger from one another than from distant nations, and therefore that each of them should be more desirous to guard against the others by the aid of foreign alliances, than to guard against foreign dangers by alliances between themselves.
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The Mayflower Compact stands as living proof that the principles John Locke would later define were already embedded in the human pursuit of liberty.
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