The Constitution of Zero Authority
Written by Dixie Flatline
These days, I cringe every time some minarchist or Objectivist invokes the US Constitution in debate.
It is just a piece of paper. It has no authority. There are no citizens.
Most arguments for the state rest on externalities. Is there a bigger externality than the state? Does any other institution or organization create more property rights violations?
Wake up from your comfortable lies and hand-me-down mythologies.
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Sabastian Curry
Fundamentally, there is only one right, the right to compete. To compete against entropy (the tendency of the universe towards disorder), in other words survive.
Much can be gained from a system based on the right to compete, but with liability, in other words to the right to compete so long as one does not steal, or take form others by force – which has been a big problem with governments throughout history. They usually end up as middle men in a giant theft scheme. Federal Reserve?
The constitution is an agreement for civil society, based on natural law. It has no more power than people agree upon, and decide as individuals to uphold.
Comment — September 7, 2009 @ 3:52 pm