My thanks to Winton Bates of Australia for his review of America’s Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited.
“Did the framers of the U.S. Constitution intend it to protect liberty?
“A week ago my answer would have been along the lines that while I could not claim any expertise in American history I had the impression that the natural right to liberty had been recognised in both the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution….
“My view of the libertarian credentials of the framers of the US Constitution has been challenged over the past week by my reading of Sheldon Richman’s book….”
Read it all here.
