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Were the Founding Fathers Libertarians?
- sharemywin 7y agoLibertarians see these two ideas as very consistent. But that libertarian perspective only feels consistent if you can accept a previous assumption: that the central state is the most important limit on our ability to live as we think best. For most people in most advanced modern democracies, that hypothesis does not ring true. For most people, it’s the bill collector, or the ex-spouse, or the boss that imposes the most onerous restraints.