The citizen is sovereign only when he can retain and enjoy the fruits of his labor. If the government has first claim on his property he must learn to genuflect before it. When the right of property is abrogated, all the other rights of the individual are undermined, and to speak of the sovereign citizen who has no absolute right to property is to talk nonsense. It is like saying that the slave is free because he is allowed to do anything he wants to do (even vote, if you wish) except to own what he produces.
June 16, 2022 Day of Reckoning for Federal Spending, Debt, and Inflation?
Do you recall all those “debates” over the federal debt ceiling that have taken place over the past 30 years? Every time the debt ceiling came up, here at FFF we said, “Don’t raise the debt ceiling. Force the feds to live within their means. No more debt.” Every time, we have been drowned out by statist commentators within the mainstream press ...
Libertarian Lessons from the Super Bowl
by Laurence M. Vance
Even most non-sports fans like me know that the Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL). It is ...
Supreme Court Tortures the Constitution Again by James Bovard
The Supreme Court ruled in March that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never ...
Albert J. Nock's "Isaiah's Job" Today by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
What role does Albert Jay Nock's essay "Isaiah's Job" play in the libertarian movement today? Join FFF ...
