What is law? Webster says that is, "The collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense"(Law). Each of us has a natural right to defend our person, our liberty, and our property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two (Felkins). Every person has the right to defend - even by force - his/her person, liberty, and property. On this basis, an individual can't lawfully use force to destroy another person. Furthermore, the people of a nation (possibly through elected officials) should have the right to choose which laws are just and which ones are not.

If a nation were founded on this basis, it seems that order would prevail among the people. Furthermore, such a nation would have the simplest, easiest to accept, most limited, nonoppressive, just, and enduring,

http://www.jim.com/jamesd/custom.htm. 10 Feb 2000.

Dye, Thomas R. Politics In America Third Ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Prentice Hall.

http://www.jim.com/jamesd/usconsti.htm - preamble. 10 Feb 2000.

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