George H. Smith on the Moral Right to Resist Authority
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 2012-03-05

In this lecture given at a 1996 conference of the International Society of Individual Liberty, George H. Smith speaks generally on the moral right of resistance to government and particularly from the historical perspective of the American Revolution.

Smith was formerly Senior Research Fellow for the Institute for Humane Studies, a lecturer on American History for Cato Summer Seminars, and Executive Editor of Knowledge Products. Smith's fourth book, Themes in the History of Classical Liberalism, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Smith is also a weekly contributor to Libertarianism.org. You can read his essay series, Excursions, at this link: http://bit.ly/zuTf5c

An .mp3 version of this lecture is available for download here: http://bit.ly/x0JLpx