"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
After “Limited Government”, Then What?
"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)