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Volume 14
Number 3
Winter
2009/10
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The Squirrel and the State
This article appeared in the Winter 2009/10 issue of The Independent Review.
Philosopher Robert Nozick famously argued that the individual’s natural right to life and property does not preclude the legitimacy of the state, as individualist anarchists would claim. Unfortunately, his argument failed to deal properly with moral objections to the state’s prohibition of people’s enforcement of their own rights.
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- Nicolás Maloberti
is a fellow at Liberty Fund.
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