principles-of-anarchism

accepted limits is mistaken for the presence of
authority.
e scope of government is limited at most to
those who deliberately choose to live under
it.
Logically, the scope of government is
limited to those who have agreed to live under
it. It is established by either an explicit or an
implicit social contract, by the agreement of
individuals to adhere to a defined set of rules as
an exercise of their freedom to choose. ose
who choose to reject the social contract cannot
reasonably be held to have any obligations to
the government established by that contract, or
to those of their fellows the government terms
citizens. e government may, of course, try to
compel their submission, but such an act is
merely an example of one group of individuals
employing force to coerce another individual or
group into obedience by making them fear the
consequences of disobedience. As such, it falls
under the heading of what residents of the early
twenty-first century would term terrorism.
Every government is an extreme
manifestation of individual action.
is is more obvious in a case where
there are few rulers or only a single ruler. Rulers
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