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>Twin Demons  - Lew Rockwell - Mises.org
Just what is Rockwell condemning here? It appears to be the State as the oppresser of individual rights - and, were that so, he would be justified. But no: it is the idea of the State, any state, that is being condemned - even the concept of the State whose mandate is limited to protecting individual rights as envisioned by the founding fathers. I hear echoes in Rockwell of Lysander Spooner's infamous quote: "The Constitution is unfit to exist."

So I believe the ideal of Rockwell is no State at all - just individuals with no higher authority than their own voluntary associations. Thus we would have legions of private courts, police forces, somehow all agreeing without coming into armed conflict.

Rockwell is correct in assailing our problems on a State that has overstepped its original intent. But the solution is not in rejecting the premise of the objective rule of law, but returning to what made our nation great and beginning again.


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