The concept of liberty is frequently invoked when discussing rights in the United States, both individual and constitutional. Less often brought up, however, is what exactly constitutes liberty. Is it delineated in the Constitution? Do we as humans possess some innate sense of what liberty is and what our rights are? No clear consensus has yet emerged. The dictionary definition states that libe...

This paper starts from four observations: (1) voter turnout is declining in established democracies; (2) low turnout means socio-economically unequal turnout; (3) compulsory voting is an effective means to increase turnout; (4) even low-turnout countries, however, have neither introduced nor even contemplated a legal obligation to vote. A closer look at the arguments against compulsory voting s...

There is a long liberal political tradition of marshalling arguments aimed at convincing Christians that distinctively Christian reasons for issuing coercive laws are not sufficient to justify those laws. In the first part of this paper I argue that the two most popular of these arguments, attributable to Locke, will not reliably convince committed biblical Christians, nor, probably, should the...