By the 12th century, the Italian city-states had evolved a new form of government, new at least since ancient Greece. The Italian city-states became republics, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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It is remarkable that the Constitution was little trusted or admired by the wisest and most illustrious of its founders, and that its severest and most desponding critics were those whom Americans revere as the fathers of their country, writes Lord Acton.

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Economics is about human choice and action. The praxeological concept of time is not the concept of physics or biology. It refers to the sooner or the later as operative in the actors' judgments of value, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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Calvin's embattled followers, enjoying rising aspirations against non-Calvinist rulers, developed justifications for resistance to evil rulers. These were first set forth in the 1550s by the English "Marian exiles" in Switzerland and Germany, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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Printing up money and lowering the value of all dollar-denominated assets while simultaneously benefiting political friends and accomplices is surely a fraud that could be classified as a confidence game, writes Mark Thornton.

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The international gold standard works without any action on the part of governments. It is effective, real cooperation of all members of the world-embracing market economy. There is no need for any government to interfere, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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Over two decades before the Spanish Jesuit de Mariana, George Buchanan arrived, for the first time, at a truly individualist theory of natural rights and sovereignty — and therefore a justification for individual acts of tyrannicide, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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The motive was empire on one side and self-government on the other. It was a question between liberty and authority, between government by consent and government by force, writes Lord Acton.

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Fake booms and their consequent busts are directly linked to financial cycles, which in turn reflect the swings in money creation. Fiat money lies at the heart of this process, writes Antony P. Mueller.

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Copernicus became the first person to set forth clearly the "quantity theory of money," the theory that prices vary directly with the supply of money in the society. He did so 30 years before Azpilcueta Navarrus, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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