http://mises.org/story/3817

Thoughtful, though somewhat sterile essay about rights and society. It is interesting to think of this authors points in relation to 2 Nephi 2:11 "For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things." There is a balance that must be achieved, to find the good society, between government and rights; the first being evil and the other good. The enumerated powers of government in America were originally limited, but are much less so now because the people ceded their protection of their rights to the government almost completely for a time. There is a reawakening of the people in this regard and protection of rights is beginning to be taken back by the people. There is a touch point of ideology that should be returned to, namely the founding ideology. There we find the balance of government and rights, but finding our way back through the web of precedent and regulation we have made for ourselves will be a careful pursuit indeed.