Tuesday, August 04, 2015

The State Defined

The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

1 comment:

Sheldon Richman said...

The only thing I'd add is Charles W. Johnson's wise observation that if nothing can constitute the withholding of consent, then logically no one can consent.