Constitutions and supreme courts are state constitutions and agencies, and whatever limitations to state action they might contain or find is invariably decided by agents of the very institution under consideration.

If no one can appeal to justice except to government, justice will be perverted in favor of the government, constitutions and supreme courts notwithstanding.'The Private Production of Defense' (15 June 1999).… In short, the more the state has increased its expenditures on social security and public safety, the more our private property rights have been eroded, the more our property has been expropriated, confiscated, destroyed, or depreciated, and the more we have been deprived of the very foundation of all protection: economic independence, financial strength, and personal wealth. In particular, we have been gradually stripped of the right to exclusion implied in the very concept of private property.

Every detail of private life, property, trade, and contract is regulated by ever higher mountains of laws legislation), thereby creating permanent legal uncertainty and moral hazard. Owing to the substitution of government paper money for gold, financial insecurity has increased sharply, and we are continually robbed through currency depreciation. Government debt and liabilities have increased without interruption, thus increasing the need for future expropriations. In order to provide us with all this protection, the state managers expropriate more than 40 percent of the incomes of private producers year in and year out. In fact, however, matters are strikingly different. We are supposedly protected from global warming and cooling, from the extinction of animals and plants, from the abuses of husbands and wives, parents and employers, from poverty, disease, disaster, ignorance, prejudice, racism, sexism, homophobia, and countless other public enemies and dangers.

According to the pronouncements of our state rulers and their intellectual bodyguards (of whom there are more than ever before), we are better protected and more secure than ever.

1.4 The Economics and Ethics of Private Property (1993).

1.3 Democracy: The God That Failed (2001).

1.2 A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (1989).

Democracy by Hans-Hermann Hoppe