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Ben reluctantly agreed, with conditions attached: the new government
would bear little resemblance to the old government, for the old
government had stopped working. It worked for many years, until Congress
started screwing around with the Constitution and passing so many laws
the average tax-paying citizens didn't have a clue as to what was going on.

It would not be that way in the new government.

The new government, at first, would be called the Tri-States.

Unlike the old government, the Tri-States would not attempt to be all
things to all people all the time. That was and is impossible in a true
democracy. Consitution-alists and Survivalists know that, to a very
large degree, we all control our own destinies-or should. The government
need not get involved, and in the Tri-States, the government would not
get involved.

Ben Raines laid the groundwork for the new, common-sense government.
When a society is based on common sense, there really isn't much need
for lawyers.

*Author's note: that list does indeed exist.

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William W.Johnstone

In North America, when the end came, the ratio was something like one
lawyer for every three hundred and ninety people-the highest in the
world! The Tri-States had lawyers, of course, but the beauty of the
Tri-States is that there aren't that many laws.

A common sense society means that if someone breaks into my house and I
catch them at it, I am going to shoot them on the spot. And after I
shoot them, I won't be arrested, won't be tried, won't go to jail, and
can't be sued by the thief s family or by the thief, should he or she
survive.

A common sense society means that if you buy an over-the-counter drug
and eat the whole damn package and fall over dead, the manufacturer and
the druggist can't be held liable for your stupidity.

A common sense society means that if someone gets drunk and has a wreck
and kills himself and a whole bunch of other people, the families of the
survivors can't sue the beer company or the person who sold the
irresponsible nincompoop the beer. (It's called controlling one's own
destiny.)

It takes a special type of person to live in a society based on common
sense. It takes a person who has respect for the rights of others. For