Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.