The modern presidency led by the Franklin Roosevelt administration ushered in more than one hundred new executive branch agencies. This led to the 1937 Committee on Administrative Management (the Brownlow Committee) and the guidance “The president needs help” (Pfiffner, 2011). We will examine the differing management styles in dealing with…

The famous comedian Groucho Marx once commented that Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. This is a good description of modern politics. Politicians look to be the answer to every societal problem. Once they find the problem…

The consent of the governed establishes all governments. In the United States, 49 states have bicameral legislatures, while only Nebraska has one. While the structure of each state government can vary, their primary responsibility is to preserve Property, that is, his Life, Liberty, and estate, against the Injuries and Attempts…

Adam Smith is often called the first theorist of capitalism, who promoted free enterprise or liberal capitalism. Smith called this system “the system of natural liberty,” or the condition in which “things were left to follow their natural course, where there was perfect liberty.” (Strauss & Cropsey, 1987, p. …

In Rosseau's theory of the state of nature, man is essentially pre-man. Man, that we know of, and that is envisioned in the Hobbes and Locke view of the state of nature, is really a man forced by society. Rousseau said that we need to go back even further. For…

John Locke described Sir Robert Filmers origins of political power John Locke described Sir Robert Filmers origins of political power as nothing more than all government is an absolute monarchy that rules by divine right inherited from Adam and that no man is born free (Strauss & Cropsey, 2006, p…

The great American experiment in self-government is more than no taxation without representation. The grand experiment is a government created by the people, ruled by the people, and protected the people from the government. It changes the question of not only what is the structure of government for free people…

Bring Back the Bureaucrats, John J. Dilulio Jr, is a short book about the dangers of Big Government by stealth in the United States. John Dilulio Jr. is a political scientist who asserts his devotion to the Founding Fathers' principles and his love for the United States government. Dilulio uses…

Classical realism best reflects a biblical notion of human nature and the role of government. We have people come together and form nations. We assume these nations would be beneficial to our prosperity and our security. These states then must contend with the other states of the world. In that…