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“Democracy is the antithesis of liberty. The foundation and cornerstone of liberty is private property and majority rule is thus logically incompatible with this.”

Liberty Democracy Private Property

Book:Private Property, Law, and the State

Source: Private Property, Law, and the State

“Property rights are the foundation necessary to explain the role of non-aggression. In other words, the non-aggression principle is simply another of way of saying individuals have a right against aggression from others as a result of property. Non-aggression alone does not tell us what property rights people have, or why they have these rights to begin with.”

Property Rights Non Aggression Principle

Book:Private Property, Law, and the State

Source: Private Property, Law, and the State

“Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others.”

Rights Property Property Rights

Book:Private Property, Law, and the State

Source: Private Property, Law, and the State

“To make a claim of ownership implies a claim against others. That is, others must refrain from interfering with your use of that thing. As such the very act of the body occupying its standing room is to make a claim against others because only one body can occupy the space at a time.”

Rights Claims Property Ownership Self Ownership

Book:Private Property, Law, and the State

Source: Private Property, Law, and the State

“Ultimately it must be accepted by advocates of limited government that the same guns that are promised to protect the population may be used on them.”

Limited Government Guns Minarchy

Book:Private Property, Law, and the State

Source: Private Property, Law, and the State

“The law itself was originally created in order to protect property. However, the law has been falsely attributed to being the reason property exists in the first place. At least, this is what the state would have us believe. The law does not create property rights because these already existed before the law was created. It is this false attribution that allows the state apparatus to conduct its mission of expropriation.”

Law The State Expropriation

Book:Private Property, Law, and the State

Source: Private Property, Law, and the State

“The only way for the state to finance its operations is through the forcible expropriation of productive wealth from its citizens.”

Taxation The State Expropriation

Book:Private Property, Law, and the State

Source: Private Property, Law, and the State