Rep. Mickey Edwards, in Pol-icy Review (Spring 1989), 214 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Wash- Good Prince ington, D.C. 20002.

"The reigns of good princes have always been most dangerous to the liberties of their peoples," wrote the philosopher John Locke (1 632-1 704), because "their succes- sors, managing the government with dif- ferent thoughts, would draw the actions of those good rulers into precedent."
American conservatives, writes Rep. Ed- wards (R-Okla.), chairman of the H...