Catallaxy ® Institute - Classical Liberalism

To the extent that freedom is not something ascertainable either by empirical or by aprioristic methods, a political and economic system based on "freedom" understood as absence of "constraint" will be subject to a criticism similar to that which we made in connection with the empirical approach in economics. This is the reason why a political system based on freedom includes always at least a minimum amount of coercion, not only in the sense of hindering constraint, but also in the sense of determining - for instance, by majority rule - through a group decision what the group will admit as free and what it will forbid as coercive in all the cases that are not susceptible of an objective determination.

Leoni, Bruno

Freedom and the Law

1961 , p. 170