Harvey Mansfield on Locke, Aristotle, and the Spirit of Liberalism
Conversations with Bill Kristol
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Liberal Rights
Lock argues that everybody's having the right to heap up riches is to make common good. So people who are in the elites who gain more than what is equal do so for a common benefit, but not in a way as to be able to rule themselves or to be ruled either. The public serves the private, but it doesn't define the private. This is again civil society. And liberalism stands or falls on its structure of government being understood as a process or a procedure or an instrument, hence legalistically, but not as a form of rule.
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