Mises Daily
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Frank Chodorov
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“The Judgment of Solomon” Gustave Doré (1832–1883) “In those days,” we are told in Judges 17:6, “there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” To be able to do that which is right in one’s own eyes is to be free, and freedom was the way of life among the Israelites before the coming of the kings. Yet,