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First \u2013 Steve Schneck<\/a>. Second \u2013 Vince Miller<\/a>. Third, Gerald Beyer<\/a>. Fourth, Peter Brown<\/a>. Fifth, James Barasel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the last one, the authors lists 11 essential points associated with subsidiarity that I think are worth repeating in full:<\/p>\n

1. Subsidiarity is a communitarian philosophy.<\/p>\n

2. Because subsidiarity claims that human nature is communal the same doctrine claims that our obligations to the community are imposed by nature, rather than by free agreement.<\/p>\n

3. According to subsidiarity the good is to be pursued communally under the direction of and, if necessary, compulsion by the government.<\/p>\n

4. The doctrine of subsidiarity holds that the common good has priority over individual freedom.<\/p>\n

5. Subsidiarity understands relations between human persons, between the individual and the community, primarily in terms of moral obligations and secondarily in terms of rights.<\/p>\n

6. Subsidiarity argues that the route to the common good should be left to the most local or smallest level of society that can effectively look after the common good.<\/p>\n

7. Subsidiarity recognizes that there are cases in which more government, even more centralized government, can be necessary for the common good.<\/p>\n

8. Subsidiarity is suspicious of centralized big business even more than it is suspicious of centralized big government.<\/p>\n

9. For subsidiarity, freedom is primarily freedom to live a Catholic and moral life, to pursue authentic cultural goods and to live in a community of life with one\u2019s family, friends and neighbors. Economic freedom is of relatively low priority.<\/p>\n

10. Subsidiarity holds government and authority, and our subordination to it, to be fundamentally good even while affirming the value of a high degree of freedom and whole recognizing that there can be excessive and tyrannous government control.<\/p>\n

11. Finally, subsidiarity sees human relations primarily as cooperative.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"