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A propósito desta notícia, ocorreu-me a seguinte passagem de "Leftism", de Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, que estou agora a ler:
«[I]t seems that - to quote a few instances - monarchs such as Louis XIV, Frederick II, or George II are genuine liberals by modern standards. None of the aforementioned could have issued a decree whereby he drafted all male subjects into his army, a decree regulating the diet of his citizens, or one demanding a general confession of all his economic activities from the head of each household in the form of an income tax declaration. We had to wait for the democratic age to see conscription, proihibition, and modern taxation made into laws by the people's representatives who have much greater power than even the absolute monarchs of old dreamed of.»
Ver também: Rawls and Nozick on Liberty & Equality