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The Sir John M. Templeton Fellowships Essay Contest for junior higher education faculty and students is held every year. The submission deadline this year was May 1, 2008. Winners will be announced in October, 2008. The 2008 Templeton Fellowships will be awarded for the best essay on the topic:
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For decades social critics in the United States and throughout the Western world have complained that “property” rights too often take precedence over “human” rights, with the result that people are treated unequally and have unequal opportunities. Inequality exists in any society. But the purported conflict between property rights and human rights is a mirage—property rights are human rights.
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Are property rights human rights? How are they related? What are their similarities and differences? If property rights are human rights, why have they enjoyed fewer legal protections and intellectual champions than other human rights?
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Please visit the Guidelines page for more information about how to write your essay.
Awards:
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Students
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Junior Faculty Members
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First Prize: $2,500
Second Prize: $1,500
Third prize: $1,000
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First Prize: $10,000
Second Prize: $5,000
Third Prize: $1,500
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Deadline: May 1, 2008
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A continuation of the Olive W. Garvey Fellowship program, the Sir John M. Templeton Fellowships Essay Contest encourages college students and young college professors around the world to study the meaning and significance of economic and personal liberty.
Co-sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and the Independent Institute, the essay contest honors Sir John M. Templeton and is held annually with a different topic each year.
Created in 1974 by Olive W. Garvey, the Fellowship contest has drawn essay submissions from more than 75 countries on 5 continents. Garvey winners have since become some of the finest of scholars, business and civic leaders, and journalists, applying and advancing public knowledge and appreciation around the world for the ideas of individual liberty and personal responsibility.
The Independent Institute will publish the winning essays on this website and seek to have them published elsewhere in major magazines and journals. All winning entries become the property of and are copyrighted by The Independent Institute.
For further information, please contact:
Carl P. Close
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Academic Affairs Director
The Independent Institute
100 Swan Way, Oakland, CA 94621-1428
Phone: 510-632-1366
Fax: 510-568-6040
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