ERIC NELSON

… from the time of the Mosaic revelation through to the final collapse of Jewish sovereignty, God’s people observed no distinction between civil and religious law.

The chief agent responsible for promoting the passions at the expense of justice turns out to be wealth.

Political thought never develops in a vacuum; it is always highly responsive to the force of political events, even as it shapes those events in crucial ways.

Good government is the preservation of liberty, which in turn requires the absence of arbitrary, discretionary power in the chief magistrate.

It is … not unconstitutional for the House of Representatives to refuse to fund the government, or for the Senate to deny confirmation to all presidential nominees. But since only the House can originate money bills, and only the Senate can confirm nominees, the system cannot tolerate such intransigence for long.

In the Biblical word view, God is regarded as the owner of all things and is therefore empowered to impose whatever conditions he wishes on the use of his property by human beings. Many of these conditions involve, for example, care for the poor and indigent, but precisely these are legal obligations imposed by a rightful owner on his tenants, they are no more discretionary than say, the payment of debts. The Hebrew Bible develops a theory of property according to which there is one and only one owner.

The distribution of land determines the distribution of power.

The chief agent responsible for promoting the passions at the expense of justice turns out to be wealth.

Good government is the preservation of liberty, which in turn requires the absence of arbitrary, discretionary power in the chief magistrate.

The distribution of land determines the distribution of power.

… from the time of the Mosaic revelation through to the final collapse of Jewish sovereignty, God’s people observed no distinction between civil and religious law.

In the Biblical word view, God is regarded as the owner of all things and is therefore empowered to impose whatever conditions he wishes on the use of his property by human beings. Many of these conditions involve, for example, care for the poor and indigent, but precisely these are legal obligations imposed by a rightful owner on his tenants, they are no more discretionary than say, the payment of debts. The Hebrew Bible develops a theory of property according to which there is one and only one owner.

Political thought never develops in a vacuum; it is always highly responsive to the force of political events, even as it shapes those events in crucial ways.

It is … not unconstitutional for the House of Representatives to refuse to fund the government, or for the Senate to deny confirmation to all presidential nominees. But since only the House can originate money bills, and only the Senate can confirm nominees, the system cannot tolerate such intransigence for long.