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The Indifference of Constitutional Interpretational Belonging: The Example of the Libertarian & Ninth Amendment

The topic of whether a libertarian’s reading of the ninth amendment comports with one “recognized” constitutional interpretation or another has been the constant subject of debate between libertarian jurisprudence, originalism, and living constitutionalism. However, what each advocate fails to realize is, it simply does not matter.  Libertarians are hesitant to proclaim their interpretation of theContinue reading “The Indifference of Constitutional Interpretational Belonging: The Example of the Libertarian & Ninth Amendment”

Libertarianism as a Consequence of the Hobbesian State of Nature

I. Introduction In an attempt to understand the connection or lack thereof between the state of nature and political ideology, I will examine the specific relationship between Thomas Hobbes’s state of nature and the ideology of libertarianism. The analyzation of the relationship is due to the high degree of prima facie difference. Hobbes, as elaborated later, advocates forContinue reading “Libertarianism as a Consequence of the Hobbesian State of Nature”