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Rutherford's 1644 disputation argues rulers hold power in trust from communities under God, so laws restraining tyrants need real public enforcement.

Tributes and essays honoring Hoppe; study selectively for arguments on migration, reputation, law, and culture, while weighing their contested premises carefully.

Hoppe's essay collection links Austrian economics to a property ethic, offering mechanisms on security and prices alongside a contested ethical proof.

Locke answers Filmer's case for inherited absolute kingship, then argues government rests on consent and loses authority when legislators rule arbitrarily.

Tucker's newspaper debates argue that state privilege in money and land sustains interest, profit, and rent; contested mutualist economics, worth reading.

A sixteenth-century essay asking why many obey few, tracing habit, spectacle and patronage, and proposing that withdrawn support can undo tyranny.

Spooner's 1870 pamphlet tests whether voting, taxpaying or ancestral ratification creates personal consent; for readers examining political obligation and war debt.