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iaajah-3557	Charles Nweke, PhD; Odu Ozoemena Paul	ROBERT NOZICK’S NOTION OF ‘MINIMAL STATE’ AND THE CONTROVERSIAL WATER RESOURCES BILL IN NIGERIA	2023	14	.pdf	application/pdf	6424	258	51	It is now regarded as a responsibility of the national community as a whole, in its organized Robert Nozick’s Notion of ‘Minimal State’ and the Controversial Water Resources Bill in Nigeria 152 capacity, to increase in some degree the well-being of its members and to make fairer the distribution of rights which they enjoy.xii There is difference of opinion on how far the State should go in ensuring welfare and social justice. Nozick believes that a state should be ‘minimal’ concerning itself only with narrow functions of protection of citizens against force, theft, Robert Nozick’s Notion of ‘Minimal State’ and the Controversial Water Resources Bill in Nigeria 160 fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on; that any more extensive functions given to the State would violate persons’ rights not to be forced into doing certain things, and this is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.	cache/iaajah-3557.pdf	txt/iaajah-3557.txt