Freedom Sharon and Port Hurom Statement Essay - 1277 Words

How did the young conservatives who wrote the Sharon Statement understand freedom? The Young Americans for Freedom was from a conservative point of view. It affirmed they considered to an affirmation of God’s’ will, affirming their beliefs in individual free will and liberty; the inextricable bond between economic freedom; the purpose of the government protecting freedom through preservation of internal order, national defense, and the administration of justice; the genius of the Constitution (especially the clause reserving power of the states); and the market economy as the single system compatible with freedom . . .Communism is named as the named as the greatest threat to democracy. (1) Despite the libertarians eventually being†¦show more content†¦It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists.†(4) â€Å"National Review believes that the South’s premises are correct†¦ It is more important for the community, anywhere in the world, to affirm and live by civilized standards, than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority.† â€Å"The South confronts one grave moral challenge. It must not exploit the fact of Negro backwardness to preserve the Negro as a servile class†¦ Let the South never permit itself to do this. So long as it is merely asserting the right to impose superior mores for whatever period it takes to affect a genuine cultural equality between the races, and so long as it does so by humane and charitable means, the South is in step with civilization, as is the Congress that permits it to function.† (5) What do the authors of the Port Huron Statement appear to mean by participatory democracy? The SDS wanted to participate in their own destinies, and to get away from what they saw as serve limitations in an undemocratic society. They wanted â€Å"simplicity in registration and voting, unfettered dominance of wealthy, property requirements, literacy tests and poll taxes.† (6)) Individual people were no dependent solely on themselves, but as part of community, and being part of