Ignoring for the moment whether a state as such can have any rights at all (it can’t), we can ask: does a state have the right to “defend” itself against the people it subjugates?
Lysander Spooner, Natural Rights Maverick
On January 19, 1808, Lysander Spooner entered a world in which slavery, bureaucracy, and government monopolies defined the law. Born near Athol, Massachusetts, he grew up on a farm with parents who refused to surrender to prevailing conventions. His father, Asa, an...
