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After “Limited Government”, Then What?
Submitted by Derek Henson on Sat, 2010-11-13 04:00
"The paragon of limited government — colonial America — ruled over and permitted two of the most brutal institutions ever to scar this planet: human trafficking/chattel slavery and the genocide of American aboriginal people and the expropriation of their lands. Excuse me, but I do not find it particularly alarming, that this isn’t exactly the sort of movement that people are willing to rally behind."
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We have yet to see "the paragon ["the best possible example"] of limited government", obviously, if it "ruled over and permitted two of the most brutal institutions ever to scar this planet". We have, (to the best of my knowledge), never seen a government limited by the Law of Nature, the Natural Law (of man).
The Natural Law (of man) "...is the science of peace; and the only science of peace; since it is the science which alone can tell us on what conditions mankind can live in peace, or ought to live in peace, with each other." (http://jim.com/spooner.htm)
"If a nation were founded on this basis, it seems to me that order would prevail among the people, in thought as well as in deed. It seems to me that such a nation would have the most simple, easy to accept, economical, limited, non-oppressive, just, and enduring government imaginable..." (http://www.constitution.org/law/bastiat.htm)