Inventing freedom
by Daniel Hannan · first published 2013
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Why does the world speak English? Why does every country at least pretend to aspire to representative government, personal freedom, and an independent judiciary? This book is an ambitious account of the historical origin and spread of those principles, and their role in creating a sphere of economic and political liberty that is as crucial as it is imperiled. According to author Daniel Hannan, the ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms--individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and the institutions of representative government--are n
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…can only come from a long period of time where there is no credible external threat sapping public will to uphold legal freedoms against aristocratic depredations. You should read the very excellent Inventing Freedom, it elaborates on how British legal and commercial innovations came to be. http://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Freedom-English-Speaking-Peo...
on “Lessons of Demopolis” ↗…legal system on their side. To complete your political education, this book will fill in the gaps between dictatorship and the kind of democracy that Anglosphere nations enjoy: https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Freedom-English-Speaking-Pe... This book will show you the conditions in which freedom develops and really makes you appreciate the United States, tempered of course by the lessons in the Dictator's Handbook…
on ““The whole world ought to be concerned”: HK lawyers on Beijing’s “clarification”” ↗…Common Law reveals a fascinatingly iterative legal process that formed a bulwark against monarchal oppression for hundreds of years. For a good introduction, check out this book: http://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Freedom-English-Speaking-Peo...
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