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Paul reviews the week’s big stories and puts the term limits for Congress in historical perspective.

This Week in Common Sense, December 7, 2019.

Initiative, Referendum and Recall (refresh for more)

The People Are Restless
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The One-Man Petition Drive
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The Day After
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Voters Ruin Everything
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Golden State Standards
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Today in Freedom

On April 27, 1759, English philosopher and author Mary Wollstonecraft was born. Wollstonecraft married anarchist philosopher William Godwin and the couple begat one daughter, Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. Wollstonecraft herself wrote several important political treatises, including her response to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), and her valiant effort in the emancipation of women, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).

English philosopher, psychologist, sociologist, and political theorist Herbert Spencer was born in Derby, England, on April 27, 1820. Among Spencer’s most famous books are First Principles, Principles of Ethics (chiefly its first part, The Data of Ethics), The Study of Sociology, The Man versus the State, and two editions of Social Statics. Spencer was an evolutionary theorist as well as a religious and political philosopher, and coiner of the phrase “survival of the fittest.” He called the basic principle of a free political order “The Law of Equal Freedom.”

Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft & Spencer

So Horrible?

The CDC on Self-Defense

Idaho Foils Foul Harvest

College Censors Squelched

Brave New Budgets