Harvey Ernest Jordan Quotes
Man does not have an inalienable right to personal or reproductive freedom, if such freedom is a menace to society.
He was one of a Eugenics movement advocates who advocated forced sterilization of mentally retarded and other people, something that a century later was anathema to most Americans.
Harvey Ernest Jordan Quoted in Nancy Isenberg. White Trash, 2016
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This was one of the first scholarly analysis of the history, psychology, and culture of the American Western Frontiersman. It is still considered one of the best.
Note the use of the phrase “against the government.” One of the unique aspects of the American Constitution and The Bill of Rights is that the government is considered a potential and even probable infringer on the liberties of the people. It is almost as though the government was the potential enemy. Modern libertarians state this very explicitly and it is ever present in the views of both the right and left wings of American politics. Most centrists recoil at the thought that some citizens see the government as the enemy, but even in America there have been times where the government has infringed on the rights of citizens only to have the courts or future administrations and Congresses correct the error.
See {587703} for a similar statement by a Supreme Court Justice.
In 1905 President Roosevelt supported a Pure Food act. Business interests opposed it with such arguments as:
Lieber is best known because he was assigned by President Lincoln to study the then international laws of war and prepare a manual for the guidance of union troops in the Civil War. Lincoln then issued the document as a general order.
