The U.S. Constitution ‒ Conquest, not Contract
The U.S. Constitution ‒ Conquest, not Contract

Author(s): Patrick Newman
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Political Philosophy, Economic policy
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: Festschrift contribution; U.S. Constitution origins; critique of Calculus of Consent; conquest vs. consent theory;
Summary/Abstract: I was very grateful to receive an invitation to contribute to this Festschrift in honor of Walter Block. While I have not extensively corresponded with Walter, nor coauthored with him, Walter has always been very kind to me as a young scholar. For example, I fondly remember being invited to dinner with him and Mark Skousen during the Mises Institute’s 2023 Austrian Economics Research Conference, where they shared personal reminescences of Murray N. Rothbard and the Austrian economics movement.

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