The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out. — Ralph Waldo Emerson In case any reader still clings to the...
Butler Shaffer
Butler Shaffer (1935–2019) was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Boundaries of Order: Private Property as a Social System, and The Wizards of Ozymandias: Reflections on the Decline and Fall.
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Butler Shaffer's contribution to libertarian legal theory and an indispensable guide to a vital topic.
I am amazed at the absence of reasoning found in the responses of many lawyers, law professors, political philosophers, and media opiners on the topic of political secession. As with political...
