Mises Daily
Author:
Murray N. Rothbard
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[Excerpted from For a New Liberty (1973)] Compulsory labor permeates our legal and judicial structure. Thus, much-venerated judicial procedure rests upon coerced testimony . Since it is axiomatic to libertarianism that all coercion — in this case, all coerced labor — against everyone except convicted criminals be eliminated, this means that