What nonsense, re the history, not the politics, of such a statement:
Pilon: "It took 80 years for John Locke’s ideas about liberty to find their way into the Declaration of Independence. It took another 90 years for those ideas to bring an end to slavery. The limited-government ideas that the Tea Party has brought back to the surface are just now being felt in Congress. This is no time to abandon them."
Locke also had written the Charter for South Carolina,
wisely keeping control in the hands of the aristocracy.
How long did those Lockean ideas persevere?
What ideas is Pilon not referring to?
Take a look at Bailyn's
The Ideological Origins of the American
Revolution, the early chapter.
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