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We are conservatives because we see these little platoons, these intermediate bodies, these sovereign spheres as the living tissue of society, we see these little platoons, these intermediate bodies, these sovereign spheres, in which the virtues to sustain civilization are promoted and taught in each generation, building traditions based on moral principles and institutions that are meant to preserve the historical common good for future generations. We are also classical, for we firmly believe that there are different spheres of class to which each individual person belongs, fulfilling different roles and exercising different rights in each; a set of mutually inclusive allegiances that allow the free development of the best in our nature, both individually and socially.
From “Freedom Under God” by Fulton J. Sheen
Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963 Current Communist GoalsEXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDAIN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is… Continue Reading →
Molinism, named after 16th-century Spanish Jesuit priest and Roman Catholic theologian Luis de Molina of the School of Salamanca, is the thesis that God has middle knowledge. It seeks to reconcile the apparent tension of divine providence and human free will. Types of Divine Knowledge According to Kenneth Keathley,… Continue Reading →
There might be a strong case to classify the Austrian School as a conservative school of economic thought instead of keeping it as the libertarian doctrine it is known nowadays.
As Ecuador is no stranger to the American institutional model for its Judiciary, and even if it does not follow it formally, time has proven its highest constitutional (and some would say even political) institution, the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court, has fallen into the same ideological divide pattern as the Supreme Court of the United States, which, in turn, makes American Constitutional Law and the American Constitutional interpretation doctrine useful to understand the constitutional power and legal dynamics of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court in a comparative analysis between the law of both countries.
By Ugo Stornaiolo S. Yes, you read that right: it is not an incoherence, nor a rhetorical figure. It is not a self-accusation of contradiction of our non-liberal thinking neither. It is pretty much the sum of our ideas, both… Continue Reading →
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