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It means one is either free or governed.

Free men have Rights.l; Governed men have liberties.

Rights are permissionless and cannot be rescinded; liberties are by permission and revokable.

Rights precede the State and persist.


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So for example, It may be rightly said that Australians have the Right to bear arms even though they do not have the liberty to do so.

Abolish the State

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