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Roots of Freedom is a primer on the thinkers and ideas that, over many centuries, have laid the foundations of free societies. Concepts such as the rule of law, independent judiciary, limited government, free markets, and individual autonomy are traced in the writings of (among others) Luther, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, the American founders, Alexis de Tocqueville, and John Stuart Mill.
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John Danford is Professor of Political Science at Loyola University in Chicago, and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards and distinguished fellowships. He is the author of Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy: A Reexamination of the Foundations of Social Science (University of Chicago Press, 1978) and David Hume and the Problem of Reason: Recovering the Human Sciences (Yale University Press, 1990).
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