You keep saying this, without ever explaining what is not "solid" about minarchist legal theory.
Or what objection to it we minarchists are supposed to be answering.
There is literally zero content to what you're saying, nothing to respond to. You might as well make fart sounds with your mouth.
Your reading skills fail you. This is why you
think there is no content in what I wrote. I said constitutionalists don't have a legal theory
at all(much less a sound one). I believe it was CCTelander who once aptly called it "bullshit on stilts". I was hoping I wouldn't have to be so blunt with you, as that's condescending and patronizing to the average or above average schooled person, but I guess I do.
Now, I imagine you're asking yourself "what is this 'legal theory' thing?" Glad to answer!
theory
[thee-uh-ree, theer-ee]
noun, plural theories. 1. a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as
correct
, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's
theory of relativity.
Synonyms:
principle,
law,
doctrine.
law[SUP]1[/SUP]
[law]
noun 1. the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and
applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
2. any written or
positive rule or collection of rules prescribed under the authority of the state or nation, as by the people in its constitution. Compare
bylaw,
statute law.
3. the controlling influence of such rules; the condition of society brought about by their observance: maintaining law and
order
4. a system or collection of such rules.
5. the department of knowledge concerned with these rules; jurisprudence: to
study law.
6. the body of such rules concerned with a particular subject or derived from a particular source: commercial law.
7. an act of the supreme legislative body of a state or nation, as distinguished from the constitution.
verb (used with object) 23. Chiefly Dialect. to sue or prosecute.
24. British. (formerly) to expeditate (an animal).
Idioms 25. be a law to /unto oneself, to follow one's own inclinations, rules of behavior, etc.; act independently or unconventionally, especially without regard for established mores.
Now you have the general ideal of legal theory (theory of law). Below is an example that makes it even clearer.
The Pure Theory of Law
First published Mon Nov 18, 2002; substantive revision Wed Jul 7, 2010
The idea of a Pure
Theory of Law was propounded by the formidable Austrian jurist and philosopher Hans Kelsen (1881–1973). (See bibliographical note) Kelsen began his long
career as a legal theorist at the beginning of the 20th century. The traditional legal philosophies at the time, were, Kelsen claimed, hopelessly contaminated with political ideology and moralizing on the one hand, or with attempts to reduce the law to natural or social sciences, on the other hand. He found both of these reductionist endeavors seriously flawed. Instead, Kelsen suggested a ‘pure’ theory of law which would avoid reductionism of any kind. The jurisprudence Kelsen propounded “characterizes itself as a ‘pure’ theory of law because it aims at cognition focused on the law alone” and this purity serves as its “basic methodological principle” (PT1, 7).
now you know enough to go to the library and start working to make Constitutionalism rational and practical.
Future generations of Constitutionalists will thank you if you manage to pull it off.
You're most welcome! Glad to help.
