{"id":11823,"date":"2010-02-18T18:29:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/18\/the-principle-of-subsidiarity\/"},"modified":"2010-02-18T18:29:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:29:13","slug":"the-principle-of-subsidiarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/18\/the-principle-of-subsidiarity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Principle of Subsidiarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">David A. Bosnich, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acton.org\/publications\/randl\/rl_article_200.php\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The Principle of Subsidiarity<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">One of the key principles of Catholic social thought is known as the principle of subsidiarity. This tenet holds that nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization which can be done as well by a smaller and simpler organization. In other words, any activity which can be performed by a more decentralized entity should be. This principle is a bulwark of limited government and personal freedom. It conflicts with the passion for centralization and bureaucracy characteristic of the Welfare State. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Obama and Co. take note.&#0160; But of course they won&#39;t.&#0160; A CHANGE is coming, though, and this time it will be a change for the better.&#0160; The whole of Bosnich&#39;s essay is well worth reading.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><\/font>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David A. Bosnich, The Principle of Subsidiarity: One of the key principles of Catholic social thought is known as the principle of subsidiarity. This tenet holds that nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization which can be done as well by a smaller and simpler organization. In other words, any activity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/18\/the-principle-of-subsidiarity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Principle of Subsidiarity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}