This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, March 17, 2015.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Many laws are begging for a bit of civil disobedience

at the hands of those who aren't hurting anyone

through their technically illegal activities.

Author Charles Murray has an idea about how to reduce the costs of that disobedience and possibly

even reward it a bit.

He discussed that idea contained in his forthcoming book at the Cato Institute's

Benefactor's summit in February.

The book is also different, most of all, in the, for the first time I present a solution that actually might get done.

I have presented solutions in the form of thought experiments, I have presented solutions in the form of one in a book called In Our Hands, which I think will eventually happen, but not until I've been dead for a long time.

This one is not only practical, it actually has a chance of being implemented the next year or two because it does not require a single law passed by Congress.

It does not require the right president and it doesn't require five sympathetic justices on the Supreme Court.

To put it bluntly, what I want to do is to make large chunks of the Federal Code of Regulations

unenforceable.

I want to make government into an insurable...

I want to make government into an insurable hazard not unlike the insurance

against flood and fire or swarms of locus. The way I want to do it is through massive civil

disobedience underwritten by privately funded defense funds. Okay that's the bottom line.

Let me back up from that and give you an idea

of some of the thinking that led to it.

The rule of law is the foundation of civilization

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