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Nov 3Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter

I remember reading this on a beach in Montenegro many years ago. Dear wifey was reading Dostoyevsky’s Notes From The Underground at the time. At one particularly unclouded moment in the day, with turquoise waters lapping at our feet and good looking people splashing happily in the shore, we looked at one another and said, “Did we bring the wrong beach reading?”

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Nov 3Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter

The problem for me is the list of books to read is much greater than my available time left in earth. To help I listen to many while driving and this book looks very interesting so I purchased the mp3 cd from:

https://store.mises.org/Our-Enemy-The-State-MP3-CD-P10592.aspx

It sells for $3.00 plus about $5.00 for shipping. Thanks for sharing.

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Many thanks for this info!

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Nov 3Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter

Maybe it's time to start over, after all it is in the constitution if you know the constitution you know wherein I speak.

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Nov 3Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter

Lysander Spooner’s Essay, The Constitution of No Authority, is a very thought provoking essay on this subject that you might enjoy…

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It is available as a free PDF download online and resident in my laptop's terabyte SSD pending time to read it again.

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We can amend the constitution, up to and including eliminating it, thru the constitutional amendment process. Given that there is little will to do that, I think we'd best work with what we've got.

The constitution has never been the problem. The two corrupt political parties are. They are what we've got to eliminate.

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Most excellent comment. Thank You. If only, the entire nation would read it with understanding.

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Considering the Constitution to be sacrosanct instead of the stopgap it was mean to be is the problem.

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If it was meant to be stopgap, they would have put an expiration date on it.

The constitution is amendable and has been numerous times.

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There is an expiration date in it.

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Really? Where?

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Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1

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I recommend „The Machinery of Freedom“ by David Friedman.

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Love that dude. Fun fact: AJN admired Henry George. Progress and Poverty should be on everyone's must-read list. Here is Nock on the subject: https://savingcommunities.org/docs/nock.albert/liberaldark.shtml

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Our Enemy, the State by Albert Jay Nock is available online as a free PDF download.

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