
by Randy E. Barnett | an
excerpt from... Chapter Fourteen Assuming
the Nonconfiscation and Competition principles were adopted, it is no
easier to predict the formal organization and division of labor of the
polycentric constitutional order that will result than it is to predict
the formal organization of the personal computer market twenty years from
now. (Of course, twenty years ago the challenge would have been to predict
the very existence of a personal computer market.) Difficulties
of prediction notwithstanding, some speculation is needed, for without
some image of a polycentric constitutional order in mind, few will be
inspired to move to adopt these principles. Rather than attempt the impossible
task of comprehensively assessing the limitless alternatives that such
freedom would make possible, let us instead imagine that somewhere there
exists the constitutional order that I shall now describe.
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