Reprinted with permission from the Mises Institute. [Editor's note: The Mises Institute presents the "voluntaryist constitution" as a thought experiment, and is not presented here as an ideological or political ideal.] There have been a number of attempts to create the ideal constitution — one which enshrines liberty, autonomy, and property rights, while ensuring the highest degree of prosperity for those under its jurisdiction. Each attempt to do so, however, has been plagued by a seemingly indomitable problem: constitutions create governments. Once the malicious genie of government has...