They can do a bit of damage but are not really capable of much up against the coercive power of the state.

他们可以造成的影响很小，因此没有能力对抗强制性的规定。

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The coercive power of the state to violate individual rights is, on this issue, prohibited.

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In none of these cautionary examples did the free market do the three things businessmen say it always does: weaken the coercive power of the state, create a democratically minded middle class, or expose the populace to liberal ideals from abroad.

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Who can seriously doubt that the power which a millionaire, who may be my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest bureaucrat possesses who wields the coercive power of the state and on whose discretion it depends how I am allowed to live and work?

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