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"The State" has never been "a structure of people aimed at representing the will of the beneficiaries of that structure. The People." "The People" does not exist as a discrete entity, only individual human beings with various wants and needs exist - the individual is the starting point of all methodological and praxeological analysis of "society". "The State" is the organisation that claims the monopoly on violence and to coercion in a given "society". States by their very nature become centralised and increasingly authoritarian. Social order is a spontaneous, emergent phenomenon which functions best in conditions of individual liberty and the principles of human interaction (aka Law) that arise from that .

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