lord william rees mogg the sovereign individual

And morally entitled to make.īut the book-composed toward the end of the 20th century-does not dwell on the moral aspects of this assertion of one’s own self-rulership/self-ownership, it prefers instead to point out the economic realities that drive the imminent demise of the nation-state. For such a person, the need for whatever services government has claimed a monopoly on thru the ages-protection, money, schooling, what have you-becomes a market decision that the person is qualified to make.

The central idea of the book, which is consistent with my own development of the Sacred Nonaggression Principle, is there has been and continues to be a natural progression away from domination by others, or by central coercive systems, and toward the full flowering of the individual as an end in himself/herself. And I do rather wonder why it’s seldom mentioned as a leading work in the oeuvre. Don’t know the man, Lord William Rees-Mogg, nor what percentage of the book he wrote or edited, but I consider The Sovereign Individual a fine addition to the literature of liberty. In those days he was a fairly well known leader of the National Taxpayers Union, which he founded in 1969. James Davidson was in Ann Arbor, as I recall, as a speaker for an LP of Michigan convention.

The title alone is compelling, and I have actually met one of the authors back in the earlier days of the Libertarian Party (LP) phenomenon. This book was drawn to my attention by a fellow Free Stater-thanks, Shuvom. Mastering the transition to the Information Ageīy James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg

Lord william rees mogg the sovereign individual