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Lysander Spooner: Libertarian Hero: The American individualist anarchist Lysander Spooner was one of the last natural law philosophers of the 19th century, and his crowning achievement is arguably the total demolition of the myth of the social contract. Spooner applied a libertarian theory...
Posted Wed, Jan 28 2009 by Brainpolice | with no comments
Filed under: Anarchism, Constitution, Thomas Jefferson, Social Contract, Natural Rights, Libertarianism, Philosophy, History, Murray Rothbard, Egoism, Max Stirner, Benjamin Tucker, Natural Law, Lysander Spooner

The Myth of the Social Contract: One of the most erroneous political ideas is the notion of the social contract. The idea is that the legitimacy of a government is based on a social contract between the people and the government. In America, the constitution is supposed to be our social...
Posted Mon, Dec 17 2007 by Brainpolice | 14 comment(s)
Filed under: Anarchism, Sovereignty, Constitution, Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, Social Contract, Consent, Natural Rights