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Non-aggression and property rights are the only laws that truly matter. Natural rights stem from these principals.

> women's suffrage

If a government doesn't have a monopoly of force, nobody needs to vote or even acknowledge the government.

> banning of the international slave trade

Your body is your possession. Slavery violates that and the non-aggression principle.

> the right to bear arms

Who grants this right? The government doesn't have the right to take any property. It does so via aggression and violates natural rights.




> Non-aggression and property rights are the only laws that truly matter

That's certainly an assertion, but not one that I accept.


> If a government doesn't have a monopoly of force, nobody needs to vote or even acknowledge the government.

Meaning disputes with a government are settled (resisted) by ... force and violence?




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