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Lord Acton Essay Competition

2002 Winning Essays

2001 Winning Essays

2000 – Religion, Duty, and Liberty
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1999 – The Limits of Government
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1998 – Ethics and Economics
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1997 – Freedom and Order
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1996 – The Remedy for Poverty
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1995 – Duty and Responsibility

1994 – Beyond the State

1993 – Liberty: Man's Highest Political End
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1992 – The Role of Religion in Fostering a Free & Virtuous Society
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The 1993 Lord Acton Essay Competition

Liberty: Man's Highest Political End
Graduate Essays on the Importance of Religion to a Free and Virtuous Society

“Liberty is the highest political end of man...[but] no country can be free without religion. It creates and strengthens the notion of duty. If men are not kept straight by duty, they must be by fear. The more they are kept by fear, the less they are free. The greater the strength of duty, the greater the liberty.”
– Lord Acton


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Introduction by Harry Veryser

Judges

Winning Essays:

1st Place:
“Religious Duty and Political Liberty”, Jendi Reiter
2nd Place:
“The relationship between Liberty, Duty, and Religion”, James D. Watkins, Jr.
3rd Place:
“True and False Freedom”, Colette F. Flood
Honorable Mention:
“John Courtney Murray and the American Catholic Experience”, Michael J. Tortolani
Honorable Mention:
“Whence Came the Transcendents”, David Hartman

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