Rosemarie McConnell

Common law gave you real property ownership

November 11, 2016

Role of Government

There’s a standing joke among libertarians that the first question out of people’s mouths when they hear one is libertarian is, “Who will build the roads?” People are even more dumbfounded when they encounter anarcho-capitalists. They immediately imagine a lawless realm descending into a Mad Max-type violent future. That people lived for centuries and managed their affairs with minimal or no state-provided law seems to never occur to them. Yet we have a marvelous example of a highly complex, sophisticated system of natural law in widespread use today in America, and most people don’t