Voluntary Governments?
Curtis D Frye
cfrye at mason1.gmu.edu
Mon Aug 22 09:57:43 PDT 1994
Jim -
You forget Weber's definition of government, which I remember as "the
institution with a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence within a
geographical area". I may have substituted "violence" for "force", but
that is the gist of his meaning.
Unless a government has some means of coercing its more recalcitrant
subjects, it can't function as a government in the sense we mean it here.
Curt
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