We talk of the ‘government’ and the ‘state’ as if these were real entities of a
different and higher order of reality from the mundane things we encounter in daily life. But the
government is simply a name for a particular group of people acting, or being willing to act, in
particular ways at a particular time and place. Such being the case, the (rebuttable) presumption
will have to be that such people are bound by the normal rules of conduct that apply to us all.
What is good for one is good for all; what is bad for one must be bad for all. If it is presumptively
wrong for me to initiate aggression against you, it must be presumptively wrong for those people
calling themselves the government to do so .Furthermore, the central characteristic of representation by agency is
that the agent is responsible to his principal and is bound to act in the principal’s interest. Can a
political representative be the agent of a multitude? This seems unlikely. What if the principals
have interests that diverge from each other? A political representative must then of necessity
cease to represent one or more of his principals. The best that can be done in these
circumstances is for the politician to serve the many and betray the few. and betrayal is a election promise.