Two roads diverged in a yellow wood –        Robert Frost I have borrowed the title of Frost’s poem; it is also the chapter title from Gerard Casey’s book, Freedom’s Progress?, in which he discusses the political philosophy of Johannes Althusius. A brief introduction from Casey: Daniel Elazar notes, and I believe he is correct in this, that the Althusian view lost out to the Bodinian view of ‘reified centralized states where all powers were lodged in a divinely ordained king at the top of the power pyramid or in a sovereign center.’ Had the Althusian and not the Bodinian conception of the … Continue reading The Road Not Taken