Power Tends to Corrupt




Liberty Law Talk  show

Summary: <a href="http://www.libertylawsite.org/2013/12/15/power-tends-to-corrupt/"></a>Christopher Lazarski comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his deep inquiry into Lord Acton's attempt to understand the dimensions and nature of liberty as it unfolded in Western history. In this podcast, Lazarski underscores Lord Acton's historical quest to find the conditions of liberty, as well as his formal understanding of what constituted liberty. The conditions of Acton's ordered liberty we can describe as "arbitrary law," national history, and a bottom-up development of positive law.<br> <br> Arbitrary law was Acton's way of describing divine and natural law, which he believed a pillar in support of political liberty because it was law…<a class="moretag" href="http://www.libertylawsite.org/2013/12/15/power-tends-to-corrupt/">Read More</a>