Doctrine of Discovery (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice Kehoe.

European imperialism, in league with the Vatican, retained the Church’s political support by accepting its moral imperative to Christianize everyone not in its communion. Thus Columbus was a Crusader, and European international law gave heathen lands to the first Christian nation claiming discovery––the Doctrine of Discovery. Two centuries later, the Earl of Shaftesbury’s employee John Locke wrote treatises justifying his employer’s landlord class enclosing common lands in Britain, extending to...