Voluntary Slavery

An oxymoron, you say?? Perhaps, but what if a person should voluntarily sign himself away to someone else with a contract? Can such a thing be done? Read on, and you will find the answer in what is doubtless to be the sexiest article I will ever post on this blog!

The Violation of Rights

In a previous post, I have said that the progress of rights is constrained by two principles, that of homesteading and consensual exchange. The first says that property may not be acquired from nature without demonstrating ownership in some way. Originally this must require altering it some obvious way, but as a society develops a [...]

The Foundations of Rights and the Capitalism of Law

In this post I will discuss the nature of rights and the principles of homesteading and consensual exchange. This is certainly a more fundamental issue than the one discussed in a previous post, in which I described how a system of law can arise out of the network of contracts between people in a free [...]

Free Market Law

A principle of law that is rarely spoken and often violated is that the law should serve the individuals bound to it rather than some special class at the expense of everyone else, for if law does not do this, why ever should it exist in the first place? This article will explore some issues [...]