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Steven J. Brust is the Associate Director of the Tocqueville Forum. He holds both a Ph.D. in politics and a M.A. in philosophy. His teaching and research interests include the history of Western political thought, natural law and natural rights, law and morality, and Church and State relations. He also has a strong interest in Catholic Social Teaching especially as it relates to the present state of the American political order and American culture. Having published a few encyclopedia entries in Catholic Social Thought, Social Science and Social Policy: An Encyclopedia and a book review in The Catholic Social Science Review, he is currently working on a couple of journal articles pertaining to pre-modern natural rights and universal natural moral laws. He is also working on a manuscript titled The Political Thought of Francisco Suarez which primarily concerns the ideas of the social contract and popular sovereignty, natural rights, and the separation of Church and State, within the context of the emergence of modern liberal democracy. Complementing his academic background is his prior employment experience which includes working as an Administrative Director for a non-profit public interest law firm and education group, a Business Manager for his local parish, and a Project Manager for a real estate development company.
"Freedom sees religion as the companion of its struggles and triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its rights. Religion is considered as the guardian of mores, and mores are regarded as the guarantee of laws..."
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