by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 29, 2015 | The Legislature
All government meddling beyond its proper sphere is injustice When the government subsidizes the steel industry, the wool industry and the arts, or builds space telescopes or particle accelerators, or pays for food critics to fly in from overseas and puts them up at...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 29, 2015 | The Legislature
No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 29, 2015 | The Legislature
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprised of the rightful limits of their power: that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties and to take none of them from us. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 29, 2015 | The Legislature
Truth has ever originated from the conflict of mind with mind; it is the bright spark that emanates from the collision of opposing ideas. —Herbert Spencer. The Proper Sphere of Government, 1842–1843. When people are required to articulate their thinking, it forces...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 29, 2015 | The Legislature
I argued the case for the ideological clash of opposing political parties as essential to the effective functioning of democracy. The pursuit of consensus, therefore, was fundamentally subversive of popular choice. It was wrong to talk of taking the big issues ‘out of...
