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The Role of the State

by Nicholas Hosford

by Nicholas Hosford on Dec 16, 2011 in Agrarianism & Distributism, Featured, Law & Justice

[How would you live, Pompey? By being a bawd? What do you think of the trade, Pompey? Is it a lawful trade? —Escalus, Measure for Measure] Enforce morality. The answer to critics who so frequently question the role of the state in Distributism or Catholic Social Teaching is simple. Excepting those who prefer anarchy, libertarian “free market” advocates and […]