Judge Napolitano on Self-Ownership and 'National Defense

Tags: Political Theory, War and Foreign Policy

04/09/2015 David Gordon

Natural rights are fundamentally different from goods and services. Judge Napolitano explains in his new book how the acquisition of a mere service — security — cannot be based on the destruction of rights, which cannot be traded away, writes David Gordon.

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