{"id":379470,"date":"2018-10-03T08:54:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T07:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-road-not-taken-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-10-03T08:54:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T07:54:01","slug":"the-road-not-taken-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-road-not-taken-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road Not Taken – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Robert Frost<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have borrowed the title of Frost\u2019s poem; it is also the chapter title from Gerard Casey\u2019s book,\u00a0Freedom\u2019s Progress?<\/a><\/em>, in which he discusses the political philosophy of Johannes Althusius.<\/p>\n

A brief introduction from Casey:<\/p>\n

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Daniel Elazar notes, and I believe he is correct in this, that the Althusian view lost out to the Bodinian view of \u2018reified centralized states where all powers were lodged in a divinely ordained king at the top of the power pyramid or in a sovereign center.\u2019<\/p>\n

Had the Althusian and not the Bodinian conception of the locus of sovereignty prevailed, the course of political history might have been very different.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Different\u2026how?\u00a0\u00a0Bodin gave us the centralized and sovereign State; Althusius offered instead a decentralized and voluntary polity.\u00a0\u00a0This idea has attracted me to study the thought of Althusius more closely, given that decentralization is libertarian theory put into practice.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>Further, Althusius is writing at a time after the Reformation, after the decentralizing benefits of a unified Christendom are lost; he is constructing a political theory that captures the decentralization of medieval Europe without the benefit of the competing governance authority of the Church.\u00a0\u00a0This is even a more significant issue today as the West no longer even has the benefit of a\u00a0dis-unified\u00a0Christendom.<\/p>\n

I grant up front: the lack of even a dis-unified Christendom (more specifically, the lack of faithful Christian leaders in the West) \u2013 let alone the loss of a unified Christendom \u2013 seems to me to be\u00a0the issue\u00a0that makes moving toward…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Robert Frost I have borrowed the title of Frost\u2019s poem; it is also the chapter title from Gerard Casey\u2019s book,\u00a0Freedom\u2019s Progress?, in which he discusses the political philosophy of Johannes Althusius. A brief introduction from Casey: Daniel Elazar notes, and I believe he is correct in this, that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}