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government .
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Examples
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This is a lawless society, a governmentless society largely in Somalia.
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We can only hope 50,000 troops are enough to prevent that governmentless nation from descending further into chaos.
Latest Articles Personal Liberty Digest 2010
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The station itself is a crumbling, bullet-scarred reflection of this entire nation, which has been essentially governmentless for nearly two decades.
Taipei Times 2010
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The station itself is a crumbling, bullet-scarred reflection of this entire nation, which has been essentially governmentless for nearly two decades.
NYT > Home Page By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN 2010
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The station itself is a crumbling, bullet-scarred reflection of this entire nation, which has been essentially governmentless for nearly two decades.
NYT > Home Page By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN 2010
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Monopolies get lazy, and I see no more reason to assume (as Robert Nozick admittedly did as well) that policing would inevitably tend toward one efficient monopoly in a pure, anarcho-capitalist, governmentless market than to assume that moviemaking should be expected to tend toward the rise of one dominant studio.
ToddSeavey.com 2009
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Few countries in modern history have been governmentless for so long, and as the United States has learned, it would be nice to think you could ignore this wild, thirsty, mostly nomadic nation 7,000 miles away.
NYT > Home Page 2009
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The "Loonies" (the inhabitants of the moon) have a governmentless, free-market society.
Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends 2008
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Well if you want to be a technical cunt, Marx wrote about establishing a classless, governmentless society in which there was no ownership of property.
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