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This is the follow-up to the first post of memorable lines from Lysander Spooner’s “Natural Law or the Science of Justice.” Spooner may be more widely known for his refutation of the legitimacy of the United States constitution or his challenge of the American postal monopoly. However, this may be his [...]
A common meme in the liberty movement is that if we can’t achieve liberty by the ballot box, then we’ll get it by the ammo box. I say neither will work since both strategies have failed for more than 200 years. That being the case, let’s examine why violence against the state will never [...]
It is a shame the individualist anarchist and legal scholar Lysander Spooner died before completing his work on natural law. I owe a great debt to Spooner for crystallizing my distinctions between law and legislation, one being the harmonious integration of human nature and the later a usurpation of our rights. Below are my favorite [...]
What follows is an e-mail discussion stemming from a quote I posted on my Facebook profile. The exchange serves as a proxy for the merits of participating in a system, namely governing others by force, that you fundamentally oppose. I was reading some Rothbard, as I am apt to do, and I came across [...]
On this, Constitution Day, I thought it would be important to highlight Lysander Spooner’s treatise “The Constitution of No Authority,” which makes a number of salient insights into the nature of the so-called law of the land. The Constitution is in no way binding in any legal way on anyone but the men who [...]
A paraphrase of some questions about the essay “The Moral Case Against a Republic” and my responses are posted below.
Are compulsory participation and taxation inherent components of a republic?
They are not. A republic, by definition, does not have to include forceful compulsion or taxation. I should have made that point clearer when [...]
I originally intended this as a speech to the Educators of Liberty this weekend.
An Illegitimate Republic: The Moral Case Against a Republic
I have questioned if a republic is the best political form to protect individual rights. Some have stated they are confused by what I mean, so I have asked to speak before [...]
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Even Jonah Goldberg Gets Why Electoral Libertarianism Fails
Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online said that “very serious, committed, consistent libertarians are very rare in America (and really, really rare everywhere else). They don’t come close to constituting a major voting block. I respect folks who seriously believe in liberty-maximization in all spheres of life, but that is not a power-brokering constituency [...]