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James M. Buchanan

Social stability requires agreement on and enforcement of a structure of individual rights, whether these rights be over the disposition of privately partitionable goods, over the usage of common facilities, or over ordinary patterns of interpersonal behavior, and whether the enforcement be externally imposed or internally monitored.

James M. Buchanan, The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan (1975).

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