Jefferson’s Views on the Role of Government
Ave Maria in the Afternoon Segments · Marcus B. Peter, Th.D.
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Show Notes
We often hear that Thomas Jefferson got his anthropology wrong, a fact best seen in his dismissal of original sin’s effects and his apparent trust in “the people.” But a closer examination of his thought reveals his key understanding of the principal of subsidiarity. For Jefferson, man was a free but social and moral creature, and this had important implications for how he viewed the role of the State in human affairs. John Pinheiro joins us with more.
Further Reading
Thomas Jefferson and the Virtue of Limited Government
Guest Info
John C. Pinheiro is director of research for the Acton Institute and author of The American Experiment in Ordered Liberty and Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War.
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