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    A night-watchman state, also referred to as a minimal state or minarchy, whose proponents are known as minarchists, is a model of a state that is limited...
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  • The Night Watchman is a novel by Louise Erdrich first published on March 3, 2020, by HarperCollins. The novel is set in the 1950s. This is Erdrich's sixth...
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  • Nightwatchman (redirect from Night watchman)
    Night Watchman, a 2008 film Night Watchman (radar), Canadian WWII-era radar Watchman (disambiguation) Night Watch (disambiguation) The Night Watchman...
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    everybody else's presence. This is meant to be the Lockean "night-watchman state" writ large. The state protects individual rights and makes sure that contracts...
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  • Statism (redirect from State nationalism)
    Minarchism is a political philosophy that prefers a minimal state such as a night-watchman state to protect people from aggression, theft, breach of contract...
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  • seek the elimination of the state in favor of privately funded security services while minarchists defend night-watchman states which maintain only those...
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  • single state, with various administrative divisions. A state may be a unitary state or a some type of federal union; in the latter type, the term "state" is...
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    many decades to come about". As an agitator, he coined the terms night-watchman state and iron law of wages. Lassalle was born Ferdinand Johann Gottlieb...
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  • and minarchists, who support the need for a minimal state, often referred to as a night-watchman state, to provide its citizens with courts, military, and...
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    Berlin. He contrasted this with the older libertarian ideal of a "night watchman state” or “minarchism”. Sterba held that it is "obviously impossible for...
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    compromise, even if such a position is unfeasible Comfort zone – Psychological state Creeping normality – Process by which a change can be accepted through happening...
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    referred to as a night-watchman state; and classical liberals who support a minimized small government and a major reversal of the welfare state. The major...
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    minarchism, which advocates a minimal governing body (typically a night-watchman state limited to protecting individuals from aggression and enforcing private...
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    maid" convince a child that "goblins and sprites" are associated with the night, for "darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas...
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  • Anarchism (redirect from Smash the state)
    interests and keep order. Philosopher Robert Nozick argued that a "night-watchman state", or minarchy, would emerge from anarchy through the process of an...
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    Libertarianism in the United States New Hampshire Liberty Alliance Night-watchman state Objectivism Paleolibertarianism Politics of New Hampshire Right-libertarianism...
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  • and personal freedoms over and against any kind of authority (such as a state, a corporation, social norms imposed through peer pressure and so on). In...
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  • highly critical of democracy and instead proposes, as an ideal political state, a hierarchal system of three classes: philosopher-kings or guardians who...
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  • Go Set a Watchman is a novel by Harper Lee that was published in 2015 by HarperCollins (US) and Heinemann (UK). Written before her only other published...
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    something is "free" if it can change and is not constrained in its present state. Physicists and chemists use the word in this sense. In its origin, the...
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  • deeds transcending our commands, Such, they may cry, deserve the sovereign state, Whom those that envy dare not imitate! In Luke 12:48, Jesus says: "Everyone...
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  • economists. Liberalism sought to replace the norms of hereditary privilege, state religion, absolute monarchy, the divine right of kings and traditional conservatism...
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  • of the state refers to the source of legitimate authority for the state or government. Typically, such a justification explains why the state should exist...
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  • supervise the activities of the parliament and controls the armed forces, state media, sectors of the national economy and religious funds. The Rahbar is...
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    explicitly that there can never be a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River. And they not only state it in their charter, that's a call for the destruction...
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    Ayn Rand (category Activists from New York (state))
    Her courtroom drama Night of January 16th, first staged in Hollywood in 1934, reopened successfully on Broadway in 1935. Each night, a jury was selected...
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    Coleridge came to have a similar conversion as he had criticised Burke in The Watchman, but in his Friend (1809–1810) had defended Burke from charges of inconsistency...
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    in which a council of citizens was appointed as the "senate" of a city state or other political unit. The Greeks did not like the concept of monarchy...
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    equal in fundamental worth or moral status. As such, all citizens of a state should be accorded equal rights and treatment under the law. Egalitarian...
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    initially intended to become an actuary or mathematician, however, the state of the economy, which was at this point in a depression, convinced him to...
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