State interference
idea · 1 work · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
State coddling · State control · State socialism · State-regulated hours of labour · factory legislation
in the texts
Law in a Free State
The central concept of the passage: the extent to which the State may legitimately interfere with individual liberty, and how its proper limits might be determined.
Surely an unprincipled State is as bad as an unprincipled man.
Can any guiding principle be formulated whereby we may know where the State should interfere with the liberties of its citizens and where it should not?
And he will try to abolish these unprincipled interferences altogether, in the belief, based on history, that, though some harm will result from the change, a far more than compensating advantage will accrue to the race.