Ojifo-Raphael

The age of reason has turned out to be the age of structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit. -John Ralston Saul There is an intuitive notion of what power actually is, and that is what informs, in part, the ideas herein contained. Power here connotes the capacity to perform in the context of subjects such as politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of legal codes by authority. What these concepts are, why they exist, why they are needed, what makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms must a government protect (and what must not) and why, what form government should take and why, what the law is, and what duties citizens owe a legitimate government, and when a people may reject a government (whether legitimately or not) are key questions that addresses the nature, limits and

The age of reason has turned out to be the age of structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit. -John Ralston Saul There is an intuitive notion of what power actually is, and that is what informs, in part, the ideas herein contained. Power here connotes the capacity to perform in the context of subjects such as politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of legal codes by authority. What these concepts are, why they exist, why they are needed, what makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms must a government protect (and what must not) and why, what form government should take and why, what the law is, and what duties citizens owe a legitimate government, and when a people may reject a government (whether legitimately or not) are key questions that addresses the nature, limits and