Green the Liberalism Machine

I thought Green made some interesting remarks about Liberalism in his essay. A few if his quips sounded familiar to the works by other Ideologists (whose names I can't remember :/). In one line talks about how liberalism can be measured through property. He notes, "This is the true and only justification of rights of property. Rights of property, however, have been are are claimed which cannot be thus justified." Basically he is saying that no one can alter with your property, which would be breaking the contract of freedom. Also important in the document, Green says, "There is no clearer ordinance of that supreme reason...which governs the course of man's affairs, that that no body of men should in the long run be able to strengthen itself at the cost of others' weakness." Hurting others to defend your freedom is not tolerable, according to Green. That is a statement that I definitely agree with, and so have other writers included in the class textbook.

It is interesting to note that while Green is all for freedom and liberalism for the people, he believes that there should be some government interference as well, so that all of the burden isn't placed on the head-of-household (the husband/father in most cases). With this law, the man will make sure that his family has some sort of security from being overworked or mistreated, which is a beneficial thing to have. I agree with having government regulations to a point, because otherwise things would most likely get out of control. Not all people have the same good intentions of not putting others down in order to get to the top. It's a tough world we live in.