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‘A minimal State ensures maximum of Individual Liberty.’ Examine the concept of Minimal State. (250 words)

  • UPSC 2013
  • 15 marks
  • State in Comparative Perspective

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The minimal state is a state confined to protecting citizens against force, theft and fraud and to enforcing contracts, the classical liberal night-watchman. Its modern restatement came from Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), written against John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971) and the Keynesian welfare state: only the minimal state is morally…

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