From: cfrye@mason1.gmu.edu (Curtis D Frye)
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 94 09:57:43 PDT
To: solman@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Voluntary Governments?
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Jim -

You forget Weber's definition of government, which I remember as "the
institution with a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence within a
geographical area".  I may have substituted "violence" for "force", but
that is the gist of his meaning.

Unless a government has some means of coercing its more recalcitrant
subjects, it can't function as a government in the sense we mean it here.

Curt