To all this, however, there is one exception, although a very large one. Thomas-concepts of the human person, conscience, liberty, the source of political power in the people, and the twin principles of the consent of the governed and the “mixed regime”-provided rich soil for the free institutions that were to arise much later in history. Thomas as the first Whig, one of the founders of “the party of liberty.” One antecedent to this claim comes in the essays of Lord Acton on the origins of the idea of liberty, and other antecedents in the political writings of Jacques Maritain, Thomas Gilby, and John Courtney Murray. Some time ago, I wrote an essay claiming St.
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