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Quote by: grandpa  The collectrive entities called "governments" claim such a right, yes. However, it is up to people to determine if regulations are legitimate and necessary, and usually to provide incentives for regulation.
If people find regulations (and, of course, policymakers) to be illegitimate and unnecessary, they can break with norms (for better or worse) and not carry out policies.
Grandpa h. |
In a Republic, the people at large do not get to make the law nor can they decide whether or not the law can be ignored without consequence. We elect representatives of the whole to make such decisions for us. Our only lawful recourse is to recall/impeach those who are not doing their jobs and/or not re-elect them.
Those who choose not to obey the policies dictated by law enter a state of anarchy. Should a sufficient number choose to do that, the whole system collapses. The fact that we have not collapsed testifies to the wisdom of the Republic our founders took years to hammer out for us.