[Shalom Israel]

It is up to you and people of like mind to *show* the rest of us that an ungoverned society of significant size can truly function more effectively than a governed one. I for one would welcome the experiment.

It's been done multiple times in history, including Penn's colony (where I now reside). Since the experiment can't be set up at will--Kennedy would send goons to get us--we have little choice but to rely on rational arguments.

However, humans are insufficiently evolved herd animals; I do consider it unlikely that the experiement could be tried or, if tried, could work. Humans often become terrifiied if they don't know who's been designated to do their thinking for them.

[tpaine]

edsheppa observes:

One of the greatest social inventions, rule of law, requires government.

It is up to you and people of like mind to *show* the rest of us that an ungoverned society of significant size can truly function more effectively than a governed one.
I for one would welcome the experiment.


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Izzy claims:

It's been done multiple times in history, including Penn's colony (where I now reside).


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I'd be interested to see your proof of that, izzy.

Well done Ed.. It's obvious that izzy wants to use our rule of Constitutional law [to protect his allodial property] without honoring or defending that law himself.
-- Pretty sad case.

[edsheppa]

It's been done multiple times in history, including Penn's colony...

We are talking about Pennsylvania right? From here

Although Penn's authority over the colony was officially subject only to that of the king, he implemented a democratic system with full freedom of religion, fair trials, elected representatives of the people in power, and a separation of powers—again ideas that would later form the basis of the American constitution.