Archive for August 2021
Rule of Law
You’ve heard it said that “rule of law” means that no one is above the law, because the rulers, the people in government, are subject to the same laws as the rest of the people. This is not correct. “Rule of law” means, literally, that the law itself is sovereign. The law—the document itself that…
Read MoreThe Only Decent Form of Government
You’ve heard it said, “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others.” Really? How about a Constitutional Representative Republic? Ever heard of that? The truth is that democracy is not in any way superior to monarchy or oligarchy or bureaucracy. It is equally evil with these others. The only form of…
Read MoreThe Only Moral Function of Government
The prime political good is Liberty, and as such the only—only—moral function of government is to prevent a man from imposing his will on his neighbor. That’s it. That is the only sort of law that should exist. “Yeah, but, what about laws like murder and stuff? You still need those.” I’m sorry, is a…
Read MoreLiberty as a Solution
Giving up the idea that freedom must be “balanced” with a certain measure of authority is very difficult, even for those who do harbor a spirit of freedom such as we discussed previously. Even if we had a society the majority of which believed in the moral superiority of service and self-sacrifice, we still have…
Read MoreLiberty vs Anarchy
You have heard it said that liberty is all well and good, but it needs to be balanced with an appropriate amount of authority and security, because unchecked liberty, absolute freedom, equates to anarchy. What hogwash. But it’s an easy mistake to make. It is very easy to imagine that absolute freedom equates to absolute…
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