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If the highest common values are negative, not only the highest common rules but also the highest authority should essentially be limited to prohibitions.

The rule o f the majority versus the rule of laws approved by the majority

Coercion can assist free men in the pursuit of their ends only by the enforcement of a framework of universal rules which do not direct them to particular ends, but, by enabling them to create for themselves a domain protected against unpredictable disturbance caused by other men - including agents of government - to pursue their own ends.

The term 'arbitrary' no less lost its classical meaning. The word had meant 'rule-less' or determined by particular will rather than according to recognized rules. In this true sense even the decision of an autocratic ruler may be lawful, and the decision of a democratic majority entirely arbitrary.