Great quote by the Misenator, in Omnipotent Government, called to my attention by Jeff Tucker: “The total complex of the rules according to which those at the helm employ compulsion and coercion is called law. Yet the characteristic feature of the state is not these rules, as such, but the application or threat of violence.“. Beautiful. Just beautiful. Cuts through all the law professor mumbo jumbo about the allegedly hard-to-pin-down nature of law.

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