![]() ![]() Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified that any more extensive state will violate persons’ rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right. ![]() How much room do individual rights leave for the state? The nature of the state, its legitimate functions and its justifications, if any, is the central concern of this book a wide and diverse variety of topics intertwine in the course of our investigation. So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do. ![]() INDIVIDUALS have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). ![]()
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