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American Principles of Self-Government

We have seen at the beginning of this new millennium a test of the American Experiment. The corruption scandals of companies such as Enron, WorldCom, and their auditors Arthur Anderson, only highlight the greater problem of our Republic in the 21" century—Modern Moral Minimalism. Modern Moral Minimalism is a moral system grounded in the ethics of realpolitik and classical liberalism. The most influential writers of realpolitik are Niccold Machiavelli (1947), Francis Bacon (1952), and Thomas Hobbes (1998). On behalf of classical liberalism, John Locke (1988) is most noted by scholars of political thought. Modern Moral Minimalism holds that we can only expect minimal moral conduct from all people. Machiavelli's moral code for princes in Chapter XVIII of his classic work, The Prince, epitomizes this belief system: