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Allegory for the Idea of Tacit Consent in the Social Contract

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché on January 22, 2011 @ 3:36 pm · 3 comments

in Humor, Libertarian Theory, Pop Culture, Statism

HT Timothy Sandefur

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