The Limits of Government: Graduate Essays on the Proper Role of the State

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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 1999 Lord Acton Essay Competition

The Limits of Government
Graduate Essays on the Proper Role of the State

“There are many things the government can't do – many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.”
– Lord Acton

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Foreword by Robert A. Sirico
Introduction by D. Eric Schansberg

Judges

Winning Essays:

1st Place:: “On the Limits of the State in Education”, R. Dean Davenport
2nd Place:: “Civil Government and Religion: Interactions in the Protection of Liberty”, Todd Hagins
3rd Place:: “Law, Liberty, Virtue, and Enterprise”, Melvin L. Schut
Honorable Mention:: “Do No Harm or Do Good? Should the Government Provide for the People?”, Andrew D. Muras
Honorable Mention:: “Efficiency versus Personalism: Competing Rationales for Limited Government”, Timothy A. Reichert

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