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When Rodney King asked "Can we all get along?" he was begging for someone to write this book.

Reciprocia is 400 pages of thought-inspiring stuff about liberty and how it can and should work. There's something here for everyone to disagree with -- and a framework that forces the reader to reexamine that disagreement. Richard Rieben demolishes the fraudulent "social contracts" of Hobbes and Roussea, and defines the state as something arising from the political contract, rather than as a party to it.

If you've busted your skull trying to figure out just what rights are and what liberty is, take two aspirin and read Reciprocia. You'll be glad you did.

In Reciprocia: Natural Political Philosophy, Liberty, Law & Government, Richard Rieben maintains that what he refers to as "reciprocia" is political liberty, pure in both theory and structure. He does not advocate any particular political agenda or advocates any conventional forms of political revolution, but instead, offers a revolutionary concept of liberty that is coherent, sensible, practical, useful -- and above all, possible. Reciprocia offers principles for describing law, structuring government, enforcing law, practicing government, and the application of principles as embodied in the legal code of a constitution. Reciprocia is unique and iconoclastic, informative and challenging, and of intense interest to students of political philosophy, political science, ethics, justice, economics, jurisprudence, and constitutional law.