I need help with this statement:

[Deborah K]

All law is protection of property rights, all else is public policy and is by consent.

Is this common law? I read this and now I can't find the source. Help?

[John Taylor]

Is this common law? I read this and now I can't find the source. Help?

I'm not familiar with the precise quotation I'm afraid.

[Deborah K]

I'm not familiar with the precise quotation I'm afraid.

It's not a precise quote. It's my conclusion from something I had read and put in my notes. :(

Bastiat maybe? I dunno. I need to find the source though.

[dannno]

Public policy is by consent.. rofl.. that is total BS

[tremendoustie]

Public policy is by consent.. rofl.. that is total BS

Yep, whoever wrote that was shoveling fast. Or, I suppose, speaking idealistically.

[John Taylor]

Public policy is by consent.. rofl.. that is total BS

Government must be by consent, or it cannot survive. All just laws flow from the two fundamental laws: 1) do all you have agreed to do; and 2) do not encroach on other persons or their property.

[Deborah K]

Public policy is by consent.. rofl.. that is total BS

yeah it is. In reality. But in theory it's supposed to be by consent.

[Deborah K]

Supposedly you can argue that you aren't bound by any public policy that you didn't consent to.

[tremendoustie]

Supposedly you can argue that you aren't bound by any public policy that you didn't consent to.

I'd say that argument is legitimate, but I think the odds of it actually working in court are approximately 0%.

[Deborah K]

That if law is the protection of property rights and that's ALL it was meant to be, then anything else only has to be followed through consent.

[Deborah K]

I'm looking at Bastiat. I think I found it in his book: The Law.

[tremendoustie]

I'm looking at Bastiat. I think I found it in his book: The Law.

Sounds like it could be him. That's a great book.