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Principles of Liberty Study Guide
3) Read William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England volume 1, chapters 1 and 2. Look for ideas we have discussed throughout this course and those you are familiar
with through the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Were his ideas influential on the Founders or was he simply putting words to the beliefs of the time?
Step 5
Lecture 5: Threats to Liberty
1) Watch lecture 5 using your commonplace book.
2) Write down each of the threats to liberty covered in this lecture. For each threat, brainstorm one way that our country could move in the direction of living each principle better.
3) Answer these questions:
Why does ownership create more liberty?
How can we return to more personal ownership?
Is universal suffrage hurting our country? Why?
Why is intellectual order necessary to social order?
How do we obtain greater intellectual order?
Why is the family so essential to liberty?
What evidence of a movement from republican thinking to democratic thinking do you see in our country?
Reading
1) Read The 5000 Year Leap principles 12, 20 and 21. 2) Read the Proper Role of Government by Ezra Benson. Write out the “proper role of government” as you understand it from the lecture and readings. Explain it to someone else.
Principles of Liberty Study Guide
3) Read William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England volume 1, chapters 1 and 2. Look for ideas we have discussed throughout this course and those you are familiar
with through the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Were his ideas influential on the Founders or was he simply putting words to the beliefs of the time?
Step 5
Lecture 5: Threats to Liberty
1) Watch lecture 5 using your commonplace book.
2) Write down each of the threats to liberty covered in this lecture. For each threat, brainstorm one way that our country could move in the direction of living each principle better.
3) Answer these questions:
Why does ownership create more liberty?
How can we return to more personal ownership?
Is universal suffrage hurting our country? Why?
Why is intellectual order necessary to social order?
How do we obtain greater intellectual order?
Why is the family so essential to liberty?
What evidence of a movement from republican thinking to democratic thinking do you see in our country?
Reading
1) Read The 5000 Year Leap principles 12, 20 and 21.
2) Read the article Getting the Book Through You found on the Ten Boom website under the Principle–Based Learning course.
3) Write out the “proper role of government” as you understand it from the lecture and readings. Explain it to someone else.
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