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Posted By Don Boudreaux On March 31, 2012 @ 8:02 am In Hubris and humility,Law,Reality Is Not Optional | Comments Disabled

… is from page 800 of W.H. Hutt’s 1966 article “‘Fragile’ Constitutions ^[1],” reprinted in the 1981 single-volume collection of New Individualist Review ^[2]:

[T]he essence of an effective constitution is that it is built on mistrust, not on faith.

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