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Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?

— Robert Nozick Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)

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Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

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Is there really one kind of life which is best for each of these people?

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What persons may and may not do to one another limits what they may do through the apparatus of a state, or do to establish such an apparatus.

Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

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Is not the minimal state, the framework for utopia, an inspiring vision?

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