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Enforcing "Human Rights": Rejoinder to Rick Johnstone

Rick Johnstone's plea for liberal federalism and a supranational mechanism for enforcing "human rights" is reminiscent of what Thomas Hobbes said about "Christian commonwealths." Behind their appeal to universal morality and religious doctrine was the frenzied attempt to shift rule "from Christian kings and sovereign assemblies absolute in their own territories" to "one Vicar of Christ, constituted of the universal church, to be judged, condemned, or deposed, or put to death as he shall think expedient, or necessary, for the common good." Johnstone is proposing or justifying a similar shift of authority for existing sovereign states to self-appointed vicars of...