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The question whether this act is valid as a labor law, pure and simple, may be dismissed in a few words. There is no reasonable ground for interfering with the liberty of person or the right of free contract by determining the hours of labor in the occupation of a baker. There is a contention that bakers as […]

Of what consequence to you, reader, is my obscure individuality? I live, like you, in a century in which reason submits only to fact and to evidence. My name, like yours, is truth-seeker. My mission is written in these words of the law: Speak without hatred and without fear; tell that which thou knowest! The […]

Proudhon 1840 Chapter I. The Idea of a Revolution If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required to show that the power to take from a man his […]

Propositions 51 School Bonds. Funding for K-12 School and Community College Facilities. Initiative Statute. 52 Medi-Cal Hospital Fee Program. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute. 53 Revenue Bonds. Statewide Voter Approval. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. 54 Legislature. Legislation and Proceedings. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute. 55 Tax Extension to Fund Education and Healthcare. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. 56 […]

1. reverse national debt trajectory 2. relax or remove all government standards as requirements, all standards are optional 3. reduce regulation …end drug war

We, the Citizens of the Free Republic of Liberland, in order to secure Life, Liberty and Property, for ourselves and future generations, do ordain and establish the Constitution of the Free Republic of Liberland, attempting a harmonious consensus for the benefit of all those willing to assume responsibility over the course of their lives. Being […]

2015-2017 National Platform The Socialist Party stands for the abolition of every form of domination and exploitation, whether based on social class, gender, race/ethnicity, age, education, sexual orientation, or other characteristics. We are committed to the transformation of capitalism through the creation of a democratic socialist society based on compassion, empathy, and respect as well […]

Municipalism

adapted from Murray Bookchin, Municipal Libertarianism Any agenda that tries to restore and amplify the classical meaning of politics and citizenship must clearly indicate what they are not, if only because of the confusion that surrounds the two words. Politics is not statecraft…Citizens are not constituents or taxpayers. Statecraft consists of operations that engage the […]

Effect of the Great Principles Proclaimed by the French Revolution. From the time when the Revolution brought down to the masses its Gospel – not the mystic but the rational, not the heavenly but the earthly, not the divine but the human Gospel, the Gospel of the Rights of Man – ever since it proclaimed […]

Two old engineers are talking of their lives and boasting of their greatest projects. One of the engineers explains how he had designed one of the greatest bridges ever made. “We built it across a river gorge…It was wide and deep. We spent two years studying the land, and choosing designs and materials. We hired […]