I'm fielding discussion questions from Blackboard and wanted to add some of what's popped up from them.
In response to a question about whether we are in fact a country based on consent -- or if we are just another coercive society -- we touched on Chomsky's theory of "manufactured consent" and the classic doctrine of "ordered liberty" (which I did not know also applied to the extent of 14th Amendment protections).
Some links I ran across:
- answer.com on ordered liberty.
- an essay on Edmund Burke.
- an essay on ordered liberty.
- something from the Acton Institute.
- the wikipedia for Manufacturing Consent.
I'll be back with more.
