Episode 03: What Makes Civil Government Legitimate?

A discussion of the main points of Kerry Baldwin's article on law and order and the question of the legitimacy of civil governance. John Locke's three requirements for legitimate civil governance are shown to be not reasons for a limited state, but rather reasons for stateless (non-monopolistic) civil governance.

https://reformedlibertarians.com/003

00:00 start

00:32 episode description
article: https://libertarianchristians.com/2018/02/21/anarchism-minarchism-legitimacy-civil-governance/
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiHWYmlh4rQ

01:15 article preface

02:08 summary overview of article

03:53 Locke's first requirement: third party impartial arbiters of disputes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo_iudex_in_causa_sua

07:52 Law Without (State) Government explanation
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1647CADF96760B37

08:10 Locke's second requirement: settled and known law

10:14 Three Felonies A Day by Harry Silverglate
https://amazon.com/dp/1594035229

11:02 Law Merchant
https://fee.org/articles/the-law-merchant-and-international-trade/

12:28 Locke's third requirement: effective enforcement and defense

16:18 Not-So-Wild "Wild" West
article: https://mises.org/library/not-so-wild-wild-west
book: https://amazon.com/dp/0804748543

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