On page 17 of this book of his, Mark Levin explains that the Founding Fathers and modern Conservatives recognize that there exists a harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that grew out of generations of evolving society, and these collective interests being met and honored do benefit all. This confluence of interests and collective cooperation are what Levin characterizes as the social contract, ordered liberty or the civil society.
Levin goes on to suggest a balance between the unalienable rights of the individual and his duty and respecting the rights of others and supporting the community through voluntary good works.
At the bottom of this page, Levin brilliantly connects liberty for the individual and its inseparable link to his private property. For the State to seize and to steal the individual's private property is to enslave him.
It follows from this, in an uncivil society, where the State is large and devouring everything and everyone, where private property is grabbed by the Feds in the name of the public good, the victims of federal attack are enslaved.
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