The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey by Michael Huemer

Author:Michael Huemer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012-10-29T04:00:00+00:00

1 Though I have followed the established terminology here, it should be noted that the terminology is misleading, since it falsely suggests that one of the doctrines is philosophical but not political, while the other is political but not philosophical. In fact, both kinds of ‘anarchism’ are philosophical and political claims.

2 U.S. Code, Title 18, section 2422: ‘Whoever knowingly persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any individual to travel in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or Possession of the United States, to engage in prostitution, or in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.’

3 See Huemer 2010a, 361–2.

4 See Huemer 2010a, 356–7.

5 See Huemer 2010a for elaboration.

6 Tullock 1987.

7 See Friedman 1989, 42–4, for discussion.

8 This example is from Huemer 2010b, which defends the argument of this subsection at length.

9 Murphy and Nagel 2002, 173–7. Compare Holmes and Sunstein 1999, chapter 3.

10 Locke 1980, chapter 5.

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