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Yes, I had quite a lot of that in my proposal for reforming the UK's chamber... but for me the nightwatchman state ends up being a nighwatchman for the small minority, and that seems to me to be in itself anti-democratic
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 Interesting. Could you please expand on that?
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The nightwatchman bit?
Well, often a 'nightwatchman' state seems to involve the continued protection of certain rights - those often associated with economic activity (from property, to contract) while those rights that might be enjoyed by the general population - say the right to health & shelter - are the ones that are regarded as being too much like 'big government'.
Now for the rich this isn't a problem, but for the poor, suddenly rights they had are regarded as superfluous.
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