Tag: Gov vs State: negative vs positive interventions

• The Chasm - by G. Edward Griffin (2003)
• Proper role of government
• Authority and the Individual - by Bertrand Russell (1949)
• Government has had two functions: negative and positive
• Our Enemy, the State - by Albert Nock (1935)
• The State's primary function was not negative but innumerable and onerous positive interventions
• Aristotle (and others) confused the idea of the State with the idea of government
• Most people thoroughly indisposed to the idea of government, they are quite as strong for the idea of the State
• There was no idea of setting up government, the idea was to perpetuate The State
• Government is concerned with justice, State with injustice
• The Man versus the State - by Herbert Spencer (1884)
• Liberty is measured by negatively coercive restraints, not positively coercive