Reviews for The jubilee of the Constitution

The average rating for The jubilee of the Constitution based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-07-05 00:00:00 Zack Wimpee Eh. Adams is adept at articulating his doctrine, with glowing words propounding the virtues and moral nobility of the founders, but...he can't quite mask his humanistic presuppositions. Oh, they've been scrubbed and scoured to make them all shiny and attractive, but at the end of the day, it's still human exaltation. Not quite as far as Locke and Jefferson and other contemporaries, but a deceptive bridge to lead the masses from Biblical morality to humanistic ethical foundations (very shifty, those foundations). Worthwhile Excerpts: "A wiser and more useful philosophy, however, directs us to consider man according to the nature in which he was formed; subject to infirmities, which no wisdom can remedy; to weaknesses, which no institution can strengthen; to vices, which no legislation can correct. Hence it becomes obvious that separate property is the natural and indisputable right of separate exertion; that community of goods without community of toil is oppressive and unjust; that it counteracts the laws of nature, which prescribe that only he who sows the seed shall reap the harvest; that it discourages all energy, by destroying its rewards; and makes the most virtuous and active members of society the slaves and drudges of the worst." "To found principles of government upon too advantageous an estimate of the human character is an error of inexperience, the source of which is so amiable that it is impossible to censure it with severity."

Review # 2 was written on 2018-02-08 00:00:00 Serge Flore Alice James is my favorite. Once she dies, I lost interest. I may pick it up again. So many good books.