With Or Without a God: Natural Law and Property Rights

Tags: Private Property, Production Theory, Legal System

12/30/2010 Murray N. Rothbard

The 17th-century Dutch Protestant Hugo Grotius, deeply influenced by the late Spanish Scholastics, developed a theory of natural laws that he boldly declared was truly independent of the question of whether God had created them, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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