Guest Post: The Governance Of A Free Society

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/27/2011 22:25 -0400
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The next in a continuing series (most recently: The Transition to a Free Society).

The Governance of a Free Society

That government is best which governs not at all. – Henry David Thoreau

Because the state is inherently antisocial, we make a distinction between government and governance. We distinguish, that is, between an overarching entity on the one hand and an underlying process on the other, answering Thoreau’s question by asserting that the next step “towards recognizing and organizing the rights of manâ€