Sure, but the Modern State has arrived everywhere on earth and it is all that and more. At the same time it has arrived with all power and that includes the power of unchecked evil and the sole right to administer justice. There is no comprehensive Theory of the State; all attempts to define the State, including Rousseau, Burke, and Hegel, are only bare beginnings. Are we in any position to limit the power of the State when just as many others are using the power of the State to further their own nefarious goals? It's here, and we are just beginning to see it at work. Is this how we are going to move toward our destiny in outer space?
How would you advance those definitions? What do you see missing from previous attempts to define the State?
Are we in any position to limit the power of the State when just as many others are using the power of the State to further their own nefarious goals?
I believe We the People are ALWAYS in a position to limit the power of the State. The State has no power except what we give it. When people willingly rush to concede their liberties to the State, sometimes those liberties are hard to recover. Historically, it requires bloodshed. That's why power should be yielded up grudgingly, if at all. And that's why regulations such as these are to be feared.
Is this how we are going to move toward our destiny in outer space?
I hope not. But it will take men of vision and far more diplomacy than I have to negotiate around the bureaucrats who would strangle innovation in its cradle.