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The limits of the American Founding: What our political fathers didn?t teach us

By Alliance Alert

Peter Augustine Lawler, Ph.D. writing at The Family in America: "That our principles are primarily Lockean is not all good or all bad, but it is a problem that should receive scrutiny from conservatives in a friendly and loyal but nonetheless real criticism of the Founders as theorists . . . The embedded family of Western civilization, however, was clearly under assault by Locke. Consequently, a defense of the family, the church, and the local community in our time has to be in opposition to the application of his principles in every area of life. More than anything else, Americans cannot turn to Locke or even Jefferson to learn why the family and religion are good for their own sakes as the core of who we are; we cannot learn from them the whole truth about who we are as social and relational persons created in the image of God."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on November 16, 2010 (boomark / email).