The 3 Pillars of the American Idea
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The 3 Pillars of the American Idea
Unalienable rights and self-evident truths are the two core ideas of the American founding. Expand the number of core ideas under consideration to three and you get unalienable rights, self-evident truths, and free market economics.You could call them the three pillars of the American Idea.These three pillars are the direct gifts to America of three great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment: Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, and Thomas Reid.Their thinking — known today as “common sense realism” — took America by storm at precisely the right time to shape America fundamentally.Francis HutchesonFrancis Hutcheson: “Our rights are either alienable or unalienable …” A revolution in ..