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What ought to be the object of all governments, and what do we actually find it to be?

The object of all honest governments should be to protect the citizens from slavery and to ensure a peaceful living condition to them and their family. But the object of most actual governments, is exactly the opposite. They enforce our slavery and call it freedom. But they also regulate our slavery, keeping the greed of our masters within certain bounds.


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What are the links between natural jobs, labor and slavery?

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What causes the master class to be more deluded than the enslaved classes?

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According to Aristotle, what are the conditions to be fulfilled for the common people to accept law and order, and government, and all that they imply?

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How can reasonable laws, impartially administered, contribute to one’s freedom?