A Declaratory Collaboration
The Influence of Thomas Jefferson on the Development of Marquis de Lafayette’s Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Lorien D. Johnson 4 May 2005 and 31 December 2005 – Original Research Prepared for Submission to HST 551: French Revolution & Napoleonic Era – Dr. Dale R. Streeter – Continued Research Prepared for Personal Study – The Marquis de Lafayette was awakened to the harsh reality of the condition of his homeland when returned to France following the victories of the American Revolution. He had been impassioned with a revolutionary...
Read MoreHesitant Democratization
The Development of Bolivian Democracy as Shaped by Perpetually Unmet Needs – Lorien D. Johnson 18 May 2006 – PLS 205: Comparative Politics – Dr. Gabriel Ondetti Missouri State University – Bolivia took significant steps toward securing a democratic tradition in the last decades of the twentieth century and through its entrance into the twenty-first. The improvements made do not yet signal, however, a lasting system of democracy. Bolivia is a nation trapped in a cycle of perpetually unmet needs. Political instability reaps no rewards, and a weak rule of law provides...
Read MorePreserving Negative Liberty
A Defense of the Strict Limitation of Government to the Preservation of Negative Liberty – Lorien D. Johnson 01 May, 2006 – PLS 565: Contemporary Political Ideologies – Dr. Denise Dutton Missouri State University – Governments are established to meet three central values: liberty, equality, and order. Individuals prefer these values to differing degrees. The values of government are shaped by the value preferences of the individuals who conduct its establishment. The different preferences held by each individual require that government cannot suit each individual to...
Read MoreHST 496-3 Reading List
The Reading List for my independent reading course in U.S. Constitutional History: English declarations and bills of rights American declarations and bills of rights Sir Matthew Hale, The History of the Common Law in England Donald S. Lutz, Colonial Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History, Liberty Fund 1998 Jack N. Rakove, Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents, 1998 Jack P. Greene, Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788, 1986 Forrest McDonald, Novus Ordo Seclorum: The...
Read MoreSummer 2006 Plans
1) Write Latin American Civ essay (20pages, secondary research as the primaries are in GLYPH FORM. I wish I’d realized that detail when the semester was still underway. Ouch.) 2) Watch nearly every British period film/series available in the Springfield Greene County Library system. I’ve a list from Katherine, no less. 3) Study for the LSAT (September 30) and the GRE (sometime soon). 4) Prepare prospectus/biblio and a rough draft for both my independent readings of the fall: Constitutional History (seminar paper for history with Dr. F. T. Miller) and Constitutional Law (an...
Read MoreAbout Lorien
I vote as a libertarian influenced by Hayek and Burke, and I think as an anarchist guided by the biblical principles of liberty. I have fenced foil in a diaper-suit and run for political office in a skirt-suit, but my shoes were always fabulous. Both dreadful politics and inspiring design are likely to make me teary.
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