HICKS TRIES TO GIVE FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION TO REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT “—we live

HICKS TRIES TO GIVE FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION TO REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT

“—we live in something that should be called a Doubly-Indirect Paternalist Democracy or a Thrice-Removed Benevolent Aristocracy. Citizens can makes some choices, but within a framework selected and enforced by our intellectual superiors.”–Stephen Hicks

SEE: http://www.thesavvystreet.com/can-a-free-society-work-for-the-less-clever/

I want to write a little about how non-discretionary rule of law which prohibits involuntary transfer “Rule of Law” is the only necessary check on the grant of positive discretion by ‘specialists’.

There is no difference between government under rule of law and corporation under rule of law, as long as citizens and shareholders have a means of juridical defense against the imposition of unwanted costs, or the choice of policy that harms them.

We non-specialists (citizens, shareholders) do not need to understand positives(policy), we need only understand that policy is constructed truthfully, productively, with full accounting, and consisting of mutually beneficial transfers.

While this may sound like legal gobbeldy-gook it is trivial to place such contractarian constraints of strict construction upon the state and it’s bureaucrats.

Curt