I remember OWK but nothing specific. Unless my memory fails me we did exchange a few posts.
Did "OWK" really stand for "One Who Knows"?
"anarchy does not work"
Seems like there's a bumper sticker or something that goes: If the anrachists get their way the rest of us can kill them.
Seems like there's a bumper sticker or something that goes: If the anarchists get their way the rest of us can kill them.
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Lysander Spooner argues in "No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority" that the Constitution is not and cannot be binding on people who did not explicitly consent to it - that the "we the people" in the preamble is a fiction.
Randy Barnett in his book "A Presumption of Liberty" argues for a view that a Constitution can be legitimate and binding in the absence of explicit consent if it incorporates appropriate limitations on government to safeguard individual rights.
Our Bill of Rights accomplished that task in 1791, and it has been ignored by many ever since.