A sizable advantage Murray Rothbard’s approach to libertarianism – that is, one based in private property – has over other approaches, such as those based in vague notions of “freedom,” is its pursuit of non-contradiction. A frequent problem in modern liberal democracy is the desire to declare a number of things to be “rights,” that end up contradicting previously pronounced “rights.” One can readily see the problems in the American jurisprudence surrounding the “right to privacy” and what that supposedly entails.The emphasis on property rights provides great clarity when it comes to diagnosing the problems we see in the state’s governance of the so-called “public domain,” referring to those areas such as sidewalks, streets, parks, and other areas that are not

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