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	Libertarian views of rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Libertarians and Objectivists limit what they define as "rights" to variations on "the right to be left alone," and argue that other "rights" such as "the right to a good education" or "the right to have free access to water" are not legitimate rights and do not deserve the same protections.
		Likewise, libertarians often cite the example of a right to "the pursuit of happiness" as asserted in the Declaration of Independence, saying that it does not posit a right to be provided with happiness but a right to pursue it, and that the wording as such illustrates the libertarian sensibilities of the author, Thomas Jefferson.
		Libertarianism frequently dovetails neatly therefore with strict constructionism and the constitution in exile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libertarian_views_of_rights (824 words)

	Libertarian - Knowmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Libertarianism is a political philosophyTemplate:Ref that holds that all individuals should have the liberty to do as they wish with themselves and their property as long as those actions do not infringe on the same liberty of others.
		Libertarians make "coercion" specific by defining it as the use of physical force, the threat of such, or deception (fraud) that alters, or is intended to alter, the way individuals' would use their property (including their body) if those elements were not present.
		Libertarian perspectives on abortion: The abortion debate among libertarians centers around whether the fetus is a person (and thus has its own rights) or a part of the mother's body (in which case it is subject to her wishes).
	www.knowmore.org /index.php/Libertarian (5643 words)

	Economic libertarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Economic libertarians were on the defensive for most of the 20th Century, as they faced a strong challenge from communist, fascist, and welfare liberal economic philosophies.
		Economic libertarianism saw a resurgence in the 1980s, with the election of Margaret Thatcher in Great Britain, the election of Ronald Reagan in the United States, and economic liberalization in many developing nations, including South Korea, Taiwan, and Chile.
		Economic libertarians, as well as generalized libertarians, advocate laissez-faire capitalism, where all the means of production are privately owned, economic and financial decisions are made entirely privately, goods and services are exchanged in a free market, and there is little or no positive state intervention in the economy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libertarian_economic_views (1206 words)

	mythofsisyphus.net/choices/libertarian.html Why I am a Libertarian :: The Libertarian Statement of Principles :: What ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Libertarians are dismayed by both such laws, since, regardless of whether they approve of drug ingestion or not, or of the inhalation of noxious smoke or not, they see freedom being frittered away by both as a consequence.
		As evidence that libertarians are "idealistic and unrealistic" Bill H* presumes that libertarians (large and small-l ones) eschew the use of force as one reason for believing they are "unrealistic".
		I therefore embrace the libertarian political philosophy as embodied in the Statement of Principles, drafted by Dr. John Hospers, head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Southern California, in 1972.
	www.mythofsisyphus.net /choices/libertarian.html (4993 words)

	Response to Mike Huben’s “Critiques of Libertarianism”
		Libertarians would respond that nobody has the right to buy something that the owner does not wish to sell, and that the ACLU was actually attacking the right of an owner to decide whom he would rent or sell his property to.
		Thus he attacks particular libertarian arguments on the grounds that there exist some anti-libertarian arguments to which that particular libertarian argument is irrelevant, without noticing that those are not the ones it is aimed at.
		He thus omits a major component of the libertarian approach to moral theory, leaving a fragment that is not merely incoherent but empty--and much of his FAQ is merely the repeated demonstration of that emptiness.
	www.daviddfriedman.com /Libertarian/response_to_huben.html (5572 words)

	Libertarian Party FAQ: Commonly Asked Questions
		Other Libertarians serve on school boards, as city commissioners, on town budget committees, as judges of elections, and in a wide variety of other elected offices such as city treasurer, district attorney, and sheriff.
		Libertarian candidates for US Senate received more than one million votes, 3.3 million Americans voted for at least one Libertarian candidate, and at least 35 Libertarians were elected to public office.
		Libertarians all around the nation have been actively defending Americans' rights on a wide range of issues: Tennessee: "If it weren't for the Libertarians, I believe we'd have an income tax by now," said Nashville talk radio host Steve Gill.
	www.cs.uu.nl /wais/html/na-dir/libertarian/party/common-questions.html (1134 words)

	Vanderbilt College Libertarians: Our Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		~Libertarianism, or classical liberalism, is the philosophy that the best state is a minimal one and that the sole function of a government should be the protection of people's individual rights.
		Thus, many have labeled us as being "socially liberal" and "economically conservative", since we tend to agree with liberals on many scial issues such as free speech, gay marriage, and the legalization of victimless crimes, and with conservatives on economic issues such as lower taxes, limited government regulation, and school choice.
		Recognizing that abortion is a very sensitive issue and that people, including libertarians, can hold good-faith views on both sides, this issue should be left up to the individual states.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /libertarian/views.html (1358 words)

	--[ Libertarian International. Network of liberty-minded individuals and organizations in Europe. ]--
		The Libertarian Alliance is a non-party political pro-free market and pro-civil liberties pressure group and think tank established in 1968.
		The Libertarian Alliance is the UK representative of The Libertarian International, and is also affiliated to LIBERTY (The National Council for Civil Liberties), The International Society for Individual Liberty, and The Sexual Freedom Coalition.
		Libertarianism is opposed to all forms of illiberalism, authoritarianism, statism and collectivism — whether conservative authoritarianism, socialism and communism, nazism, fascism and racial collectivism - and to censorship of any form of expression.
	www.libertarian.to /NewsDta/templates/news1.php?art=art750 (1906 words)

	Rossputin.com: Rational Thinking About Our World - Post details: The Libertarian Effect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In a recent study called "The Libertarian Vote", David Boaz (Cato Institute) and David Kirby (America's Future Foundation) discuss the growing number of American libertarians, the growing dissatisfaction among them (including me) with the GOP, and the continuing shift in voting patterns caused by that dissatisfaction.
		Libertarians were naive when they believed in open borders before 9/11 and plain suicidal if they believed in them after.
		If this election is viewed by Republican leaders for what it is, a wake-up call to return to the party's tradition of low taxes and limited gov't, then it will be a painful-but-useful chastisement.
	www.rossputin.com /blog/index.php/a/2006/11/11/the_libertarian_effect (1667 words)

	Dismantling Leviathan
		Libertarians who oppose the project of seeking political power in order to dismantle the state offer both a Principled Objection — that libertarians inside government cannot achieve their aims without violating people's rights — and a Pragmatic Objection — that such a project, even if morally permissible, is self-defeating.
		If the liberalization process proceeds fast enough, then by the time the libertarian politician has weakened enough to succumb to the temptations of power, the power he or she was tempted to use may have largely dwindled away.
		On the other hand, if the worry is that the public will misperceive libertarian political action as sanctioning the state, I reply with a tu quoque; for the public is equally likely to misperceive the strategy of the anti-political libertarians, mistaking their principled renunciation of electoral politics for apathy and defeatism.
	libertariannation.org /a/f32l1.html (3521 words)

	Political Curriculum:
		No matter what one's vision of a future Libertarian Society, the key to that society's survival is in the education the society provides to its citizens regarding the society's history and its approach to social change.
		It is possible for a society to exist in which the average citizen's view of social change is that it does not happen or that it should not be encouraged.
		A Libertarian Society such as that of the Amish (who strongly resist technological innovation) might exist, but it is unlikely that all citizens would see a static economy as desirable.
	libertariannation.org /a/f33j1.html (2727 words)

	Talk:Libertarian - dKosopedia
		In practice, the phrase "libertarian" can include a fairly wide range of people, from right wing extemists to fiscally conservative liberals on one hand, to left-wing anarchists, and libertarian socialists on the other.
		It seems to me that there is emerging a serious movement of libertarians from alignment with the reps to alignment with the dems.
		Obviously libertarian socialism does not support state control of the economy; it supports egalitarian values and workers' autonomy.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Talk:Libertarian (732 words)

	Ron Paul - Congresspedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ronald Ernest Paul, MD is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 14th Congressional District (map) and a former Presidential Candidate of the United States Libertarian Party.
		Paul's Libertarian economic views lead him to oppose nearly all government intervention in the market.
		As an example of this shift, the Austin Chronicle newspaper, a liberal, alternative weekly newspaper in Austin, Texas described his views as "erratic" in 2000 [2].
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Ron_Paul (1431 words)

	Half Sigma: More intelligent people are more libertarian on economic issues
		If the United States places some sort of economic embargo on Iran, this probably means there will be no more Persian rugs for sale in the U.S. I urge my readers to visit this online rug store before it's too late.
		There is a tendency for more intelligent people to hold more libertarian views on economic issues.
		Libertarians will at least be happy that the nation has a strong preference for less government regulation: 46.1% want less and only 18% don’t.
	www.halfsigma.com /2006/06/more_intelligen.html (1324 words)

	Left libertarian - Libertarian Wiki
		Even Marxist movements included a libertarian vision, though they reserved this vision for the distant future and believed that centralization of power in the hands of the state was inevitable, and that this power could be coopted and used for the common good...at least the sincere Marxists believed this.
		Leftist libertarians view economics and politics as being intimately connected.
		Rather than trying to micromanage associations as the statist leftists do, left libertarians focus on producing the basic conditions that enable individuals to freely enter into egalitarian relationships.
	libertarianwiki.org /Left_libertarian (158 words)

	Democratic Peace: 02/01/2006 - 02/28/2006
		Our view is that these crises will continue as long as Kim Jong Il reigns in Pyongyang, and we advocate political, economic, and diplomatic polices designed to bring an untimely end to that reign.
		The economic benefits from the dramatic increases in the use of ICTs in countries such as Canada and the United States are well known.
		But, because that naive view became outdated so quickly, people assumed that the Internet and other new forms of communications were not really having a major impact on the political process, at least to advance liberty and democracy.
	freedomspeace.blogspot.com /2006_02_01_freedomspeace_archive.html (14916 words)

	Libertarian Issues Index: Positions and Arguments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This page is intended to take a broad view of the libertarian movement.
		It is intended to present not merely a concensus view, but to include divergent views within the movement.
		Critiques Of Libertarianism (From outside the libertarian movement.
	www.reninet.com /maile/billbunn/political/libertarian/positions.html (402 words)

	Deltoid » The Libertarian Purity Test (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It said that I was a “soft-core libertarian”, which I don’t think is right, but it’s still fun as long as you don’t take the results too seriously.
		The graph to the right shows that the higher your Left/Right score is, the higher your libertarian score is. The last graph plots the actual Libertarian purity test scores on the political compass.
		I’m an anti-libertarian, if anything, and that this test somehow assumes I have libertarian leanings because I have liberal views about legalizing drugs and private sexual activities is vaguely offensive.
	timlambert.org /2004/03/libertarianpurity (1217 words)

	Half Sigma: Religiosity, economic views, and children
		We see that whether or not a person considers himself liberal or conservative is an equal mix of religion (more religious corresponds with more conservative), and libertarian economic views (more libertarian corresponds with more conservative).
		It would be fair to say that religion and economic views are given approximately equal weight when people consider their liberal-conservative orientation.
		David Lat and Libertarian Man of Mystery do no favors to women (and especially women bloggers) when they pose as women or caricature “female triviality” to suit their own ends...
	www.halfsigma.com /2006/09/religiosity_eco.html (1296 words)

	EconLog, The Libertarian Case for Divided Government, Bryan Caplan: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Slivinski tabulates that under the average united government - i.e., one-party control of the presidency, House, and Senate - the growth of real per-capita government spending is 3.4%.
		The most libertarian configuration of all turns out to be Democratic president + Republican Congress.
		Bryan Caplan claims in his post "The Libertarian Case for Divided Government" at EconLog, that he taught Stephen Slivinski everything he knows.
	econlog.econlib.org /archives/2006/08/the_libertarian.html (729 words)

	Half Sigma: Hispanics and Republicans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As more Christian voters with socialist economic views join the Republican party, candidates who support libertarian economic policies will no longer win primaries, and suddenly the platforms of the two parties will undergo a radical shift.
		Further, it's not clear that secular libertarians defecting to the Democrats would cause the expulsion of the leftist wing; you might just see a secular-values coalition between liberals and libertarians.
		Certainly they are the last hope of secularist common sense, but given their core base of unions, government workers, and the working class in general they are not likely to be advocating minimal government any time soon.
	www.halfsigma.com /2006/08/hispanics_and_r.html (1026 words)

	Libertarianism.com
		You'll find great resources here: concise definitions and explanations of libertarianism; short answers to common (and not-so-common) questions; libertarian positions on specific issues; famous libertarian figures; and much more.
		You'll also learn why libertarians believe so strongly that liberty is the surest pathway to a world of peace, abundance, creativity, harmony, community, order, and safety -- a world where all peaceful people are free to pursue their own dreams, to reach for their fullest potential, to strive for their highest aspirations.
		There are hundreds of libertarian organizations, think-tanks, political groups, publications, and the like.
	www.libertarianism.com (660 words)

	Political Parties, Elections Bureau, Secretary of State's Website
		The Montana Libertarian Party is the real choice for less government, lower taxes, and more freedom.
		People should be free to make their own choices, provided they don't infringe on the equal right of others to do the same.
		They do not necessarily represent the views of the Secretary of State or the State of Montana, but are included to provide information to the voters on the political parties that have qualified for the ballot.
	sos.state.mt.us /ELB/parties/Libertarian.asp (248 words)

	The American Libertarian Instinct
		The pundits who claim that we now love big government have a stake in seeing the libertarian strain in American politics banished forever.
		The libertarian view that the government should intervene neither at home nor aboard has at last found something of a home in the American political orthodoxy.
		Meanwhile, Gore belies his new limited-government rhetoric by otherwise running as the man who favors world empire, while Buchanan and Nader implausibly attempt to link socialistic economic views with foreign-policy isolationism.
	www.lewrockwell.com /rockwell/americanlibertarian.html (858 words)

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