Name: Anatomy of the State — How States Relate to One Another
Author: Murray Newton Rothbard

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — How States Relate to One Another (1974)

“ Neither the people nor the land of northwest Ruritania are owned by either of the two governments. As a corollary, one government can certainly not bind, by the dead hand of the past, a later government through treaty. A revolutionary government which overthrew the king of Ruritania could, similarly, hardly be called to account for the king’s actions or debts, for a government is not, as is a child, a true “heir” to its predecessor’s property. ”

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — How States Relate to One Another (1974)

“ In the modern era of total war, combined with the technology of total destruction, the very idea of keeping war limited to the State apparati seems even more quaint and obsolete than the original Constitution of the United States. ”

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — How States Relate to One Another (1974)

“ When States are not at war, agreements are often necessary to keep frictions at a minimum. One doctrine that has gained curiously wide acceptance is the alleged “sanctity of treaties.” This concept is treated as the counterpart of the “sanctity of contract.” But a treaty and a genuine contract have nothing in common. A contract transfers, in a precise manner, titles to private property. Since a government does not, in any proper sense, “own” its territorial area, any agreements that it concludes do not confer titles to property. ”

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — How States Relate to One Another (1974)

“ Unless a territory is stateless or uninhabited, any such expansion involves an inherent conflict of interest between one set of State rulers and another. Only one set of rulers can obtain a monopoly of coercion over any given territorial area at any one time: complete power over a territory by State X can only be obtained by the expulsion of State Y. War, while risky, will be an ever-present tendency of States, punctuated by periods of peace and by shifting alliances and coalitions between States. ”

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — How States Relate to One Another (1974)

“ Since the territorial area of the earth is divided among different States, inter-State relations must occupy much of a State’s time and energy. The natural tendency of a State is to expand its power, and externally such expansion takes place by conquest of a territorial area. ”

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — How States Relate to One Another (1974)

“ As one natural consequence, no town ever resisted, it being obvious that a government too weak to defend its citizens had forfeited their allegiance. Civilians had little to fear from the dangers of war which were the concern only of professional soldiers. ”

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — How States Relate to One Another (1974)

“ So they adopted the practice of hiring mercenaries to do their fighting for them, and, being thrifty, businesslike folk, they dismissed their mercenaries immediately after their services could be dispensed with. Wars were, therefore, fought by armies hired for each campaign.... For the first time, soldiering became a reasonable and comparatively harmless profession. ”

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