Jim Elliott

If you want the people to respect their government, the government needs to respect the people.

Over the centuries people have worked to write rules that protected a person’s life, liberty, and property. When the earliest mining camps began in Montana, they developed principles on how to protect each other’s claims. Pure and simple self-interest made it important to have rules, and if a rule was to be effective it had to apply to everybody, not just the strongest, so the purpose of creating laws went from protecting only self-interest to protecting mutual interests.

Just as there had to be rules to protect people’s lives and property, there had to be rules to protect a person accused of violating those rules, because, after all, accusers sometimes lie. Thus began the rights

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