korrents

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Government exists ultimately for nothing but the distribution of justice

Drawn from what David Hume said

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What this subject means

government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

What David Hume actually said

  1. David Hume Scottish philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment (1711 to 1776)
    We are, therefore, to look upon all the vast apparatus of our government, as having ultimately no other object or purpose but the distribution of justice, or, in other words, the support of the twelve judges.

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