The left-right spectrum comes from seating in France's revolutionary assembly in 1789, where supporters of change sat left of the president and defenders of the king sat right.
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Natural rights grew out of ancient natural law. Historians disagree on when the shift happened: the twelfth-century canonists, the fourteenth century, or the seventeenth.
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Olson argued that in stable societies, special-interest groups accumulate over time and divert effort from growth to redistribution, slowing economies until upheaval clears them away.
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