As I prepare to write a post concerning government & American culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. National or Federal? - Natural Rights Theories: High Middle Ages to Late Scholastics What is the distinction between the people being sovereign & mob rule? How is that distinction treated today? What happened to the 10th Amendment in modern law?

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in England in 1885. Within the first seven chapters of the story, the audience is introduced to four important characters: Dr. Jekyll, his old friends Dr. Lanyon and Dr. Utterson, and his new, unsavory acquaintance, Mr. Hyde. The relationship between Jekyll and Hyde raises a question that extends far beyond the story: how responsible are people for the things they allow into their lives?

The ultimate purpose of government is not to create or determine the rights of its people, but to protect the rights they already possess under natural law; therefore, government must remain limited enough that its authority does not threaten the freedoms it exists to preserve. Many scholars have posed the question, “What should be a government’s intention?” John Locke is one of the most prominent examples. Locke theorized natural law, the idea that human nature governs