The Constitution of Non-state Government: Field Guide to Texas Secession
Public debt has grown to unrepayable sums, currently at over $30 trillion in the United States alone; violent crime reigns in the once great cities; social divisions are increasingly intractable; and the supposedly sovereign citizen feels powerless before an ever-growing centralized Leviathan.
Is there no other form of government to replace the impending ruin of the state? This book contends that there is.
The state is in fact a recent form of government which has existed less than 400 years. Its key characteristics—centralization, ceaseless expansion of its powers to coerce, removal of all institutions between those powers and its citizens, and a pretense of legitimacy in majoritarian absolutism—have finally reached their historical dead end. Far longer lived and far more successful non-state governments have existed throughout history. The 500-year-old Hanseatic League, the over-700-year-old Swiss Confederation, and the 1,100-year-old Venetian republic provide inspiring alternatives. From those examples, this book has abstracted a non-state constitution, kleristocracy, established on the new praxeological category of architectonics. The brilliant insight of architectonics is astonishing in its simplicity. It is this: just as the subjective theory of value establishes economics, so it establishes reason as the directing agency of political affairs in a communitarian polity.
The book rigorously demonstrates the superiority of the kleristocratic constitution over all of the state’s advocates in political science, from Hobbes to Rawls. And it provides a highly detailed implementation of its principles in the American state where it is most likely to succeed: Texas. The Constitution of Non-state Government is a book written with logical power and icon-busting verve, as befits a thoroughgoing tract that upends every received notion about what constitutes good government.
From Immigrant to Public Intellectual: An American Story (autographed edition)
Murray Sabrin’s is a truly American story about an immigrant child’s rise from humble beginnings to forge a stellar career as an educator, author, candidate, and media influencer. In From Immigrant to Public Intellectual, Sabrin explains libertarianism in plain language, setting his own life story against a half-century of changing times.
“From the ashes of post–World War II West Germany to the heights of intellectual respectability to the driveway of the New Jersey Governor’s mansion, Professor Murray Sabrin has written a rollicking tour of his life’s path that takes us down memory lane from the JFK era to the present.”
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