III. Regulatory Organization: Law (organized violence and coercion)
P.1) Political Freedom (Choice and Opposition): speech, assembly, leadership, concentration of wealth. (The right to cooperate against others who have a similar right) The right of opposition. Political freedom is the freedom to cooperate for GROUP ends, by pooling resources, and establishing an organization, or association for the purpose of advancing those ends.
- Coercion:
Opposition: The freedom to abandon, evade participation in informal and formal organizations.
Cost: Choice of, adherence to norms. Evangelism of norms. Opportunity cost competition with alternate norms. Compromise (discount) on methods in exchange for group cooperation on ends.
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- L.1) Legislative Freedom: This includes the freedom to establish property definitions (real, several, built) as well as abstract (patents, options), as well as enforce normative opportunity cost payments, including manners, ethics and morals, and normative tax payments for a multitude of purposes. As populations increase, anonymity increases, and so do the apparent randomness of dispute resolutions and punishments. Early laws standardize these variations in outcome. Later laws prescribe behavior rather than normalize outcomes.
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Perception and Calculation:L.2) Institutional Freedom: Freedom to establish institutions: Taxes, dispute resolution, defense, justice
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L.3) National freedom: freedom to control resources by establishing legal monopoly on violence over geographic territory. (In other words, adding territory to legal freedom.)
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