State Systems

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In this article, the writer discusses that the concept of freedom underlies and motivates all ideologies, doctrines and dogmas of human progress and the objective of social organization and political institutions. In the quest for freedom, the writer maintains that man must not only attain economic sufficiency and personal security but also live or survive in a social and psychological milieu of external cultural regimentation. Further, the writer argues that any pattern of social organization or political institution should be suited to the condition, which provides man with the greatest measure of freedom or liberty. The writer concludes that whatever the binds, man will always, by nature, direct his conscious creative power towards that ideal and only until then will true democracy be established.

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"The existence of a limited government, which will serve as a legal environment can provide the fertile ground, in which individual liberty or freedom can flourish. This legal environment is based on the concepts of private property and voluntary exchange. But because of the basic economic problem of scarcity, individuals must interact with one another and their interaction must be guided by rules. These rules impose restrictions on human activities and delineate between liberty and license. They are necessary in enforcing order, without which those with superior and unrestrained brute strength could force their will on the weak or inferior. Freedom from rules cannot guarantee prosperity and genuine freedom. When rules are applied generally, they can expand the liberty of all individuals by limiting the actions of each individual. The only guarantee believed to carry this concept through was to concentrate authority in the hands of a select ruler who would require the implementation of these ideals. It was the consensus that such an authority would establish general rules of conduct, which would create an environment wherein desirable results could emerge from the exercise of individual liberty."

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