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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.
		Libertarians argue that rights rest originally in individuals and never in groups such as nations, races, religions, classes, or cultures, and distinguish between a wrong done to individual members of a group and the group itself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libertarian_views_of_rights (794 words)

	Property - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Modern property rights can be said to begin with the transition from ownership by entities as being the primary form of property right, to the theory that property rights are to promote the general good, and specifically encourage economic development and utilization of property.
		Property is usually thought of in terms of a bundle of rights as defined and protected by the local sovereignty which itself, by definition, has "exclusive right to exercise supreme authority" concerning that property.
		Through property rights, Blackstone thought, which is why he emphasized that indemnification must be awarded a nonconsenting owner whose property is taken by eminent domain, and that a property owner is protected against physical invasion of his property by the laws of trespass and nuisance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/property_rights (2871 words)

	Libertarianism
		These property rights (in their own person and in other things) set the limits of permissible non-consensual force against a person: such force is permissible only when it is necessary to prevent that person from violating someone's rights or to impose rectification for such violation (e.g., compensation or punishment).
		Libertarianism is typically formulated as a theory of the permissible use of force.
		This political libertarianism holds that the use of force is permissible just in case it violates no one's libertarian rights (e.g., is consensual or is necessary to prevent a rights violation).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/libertarianism (5692 words)

	Book Encyclopedia - Web Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In fact, the collaboration seems to have benefitted Lane's career as much as her mother's - two of her most commercially successful novels, "Let the Hurricane Roar" and "Free Land" were written at the same time as the "Little House" series, and basically retell Ingalls and Wilder family stories, but in an adult formal.
		During the last 30 years of her life, Lane turned away from fiction writing and became one of the more influential American libertarians of the middle 20th century.
		She was also the adoptive grandmother of Roger MacBride, the Libertarian Party's 1976 candidate for President of the United States.
	www.bookencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Rose_Wilder_Lane (831 words)

	No Treason! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Aside from these rights-related, libertarian considerations, a corresponding ethical view holds it that if you sire children when you are not in a reasonable position to care for them emotionally, financially, etc., you are scum of the earth, but not necessarily a criminal.
		For example, libertarians do not consider sentences like "Children have a right to an education" to have any more moral meaning than "I have the right to take all of Ally's stuff", as neither fits the definition of what rights are.
		Rights arising due to "action" as you say are usually understood to be the result of aggression...that's why Rand's dictum uses the word "initation".
	www.no-treason.com /comments.php?id=924_0_1_0_C (13844 words)

	In a Blog's Stead - January 2003
		The rights that are an inherent part of Western civilization refer to the accepted rules of interaction between the self-organized society and the individual.
		I used the term "collective" because that seems the right term for a society when that society is understood as having a right to violate the liberty and property of its members.
		Libertarians will tout legalization of drugs until their libertine neighbors get stoned and apply libertarianism in, say, molesting their child or slashing a relative to pieces in an hallucinatory fit of anger or running down grandma walking in the neighborhood.
	www.praxeology.net /unblog01-03.htm (14219 words)

	Reason magazine -- July 1975
		Government exists, of course, for the defense of the nation, and for the defense of the rights of the individual.
		I have illustrated this many times by saying that I would recognize the right of government to say that someone who rode a motorcycle had to protect the public from himself by making certain provisions about his equipment and the motorcycle–the same as we do with an automobile.
		Right now, virtually half of every dollar earned in the United States is taken by governments–Federal, state or local.
	reason.com /7507/int_reagan.shtml (6056 words)

	Jesse Gordon on Civil Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It seems to me that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as people, and that right shouldn’t be infringed at all.
		Buchanan’s view that gay marriage is “immoral” and therefore that it should be banned indicates a basic misunderstanding of civil rights.
		The controversy is about whether it’s right for an official state office to fly a flag which indicates support for the oppression of fls.
	www.govote.com /Celeb/Jesse_Gordon_Civil_Rights.htm (422 words)

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		Although conservatives and libertarians across the country hold differing views on many of the subjects listed, the views of those recommended by the Society on a number of specific controversial issues are strikingly uniform.
		While many Americans respect the right of state and local governments to make certain decisions, leading members of the Society take federalism to an extreme by seeking to block the ability of the federal government to enact and enforce laws protecting the environment, civil rights, workplace health and safety, and other areas.
		In addition, he is a founder of the Center for Individual Rights, a far-right legal organization that, according to its Web site, files lawsuits pertaining to civil rights, congressional authority, elections, equal protection, the First Amendment, free exercise of religion, and freedom of speech.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/CAH/feddieSoc.txt (5718 words)

	Moral Development [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Such views cannot explain the anomaly of moral wisdom amidst the naiveté of all other childhood beliefs, nor the failure of this wisdom to actually show itself.
		Utilitarianism is unable to assure minimal fairness and equality, to view such considerations and others as morally inherent and untradable, to create moral disjuncts that set upper limits on obligation and lower limits on decency, to accord proper place and protection for individual autonomy, and the like.
		Their design must appeal to student views even when attempting to enhance and challenge those views, not aiming fill up empty space or reorganize badly filled space with something new or better.
	www.iep.utm.edu /m/moraldev.htm (10336 words)

	CornellSaul.htm
		Both the individual and collective rights models of the Second Amendment are essentially static in their conception of the understanding of the right to keep and bear arms.
		Describing the right to bear arms as an individual right in the common usage of that term in contemporary legal discourse clearly does not work for plebeian populists who were comfortable with a range of limits on gun ownership that exceeds anything modern courts would allow for a fundamental constitutional right.
		It was not the right of the people acting through their state governments to maintain well-regulated militias that plebeians defended, but rather the rights of local communities, to spontaneously organize as militias.
	www.h-net.org /~shear/paper/CornellSaulPaper.htm (9711 words)

	Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
		Natural grace was "You have to do all the right things in the world to get to heaven..." and supernatural grace was "...and God has to anoint you." And you never knew if you had supernatural grace or not.
		This pulls against the libertarian view that's quite common on the network, and it absolutely pulls against the one person/one vote notion.
		And in their view, since Tibet wasn't a country, there oughtn't be any place to discuss its culture, because that was oxymoronic.
	www.shirky.com /writings/group_enemy.html (8599 words)

	PRODOS.COM internet radio - Ayn Rand, Science, Lateral Thinking, Rights, Capitalism, Art, Humour
		Far right, New Right, extreme-rightist, Racist, Fascist, neo-fascist, anti-immigration, similiar to France's Jean Marie LePen, and sometimes even as a radical laissez-faire supporter (which is the exact opposite of statist fascism of course - but these left-wing journalists aren't known for their intelligence).
		Since the USA was explicitly founded on the ideal of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, what that means is that individuals have the inalienable right to pursue their own values.
		The right to devote every second of your life to the things your love and the idea that no one has the right to get in your way.
	www.prodos.com /index.html (5973 words)

	The Federalist Society: From Obscurity to Power, by People For the American Way Foundation, Aug 2001
		Other organizations on the far right that have received support from Olin are the Center for Individual Rights, Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum, Focus on the Family, the Free Congress Foundation, the Independent Women's Forum, and the Institute for Justice.
		Roger Clegg, a vice chairman of the civil rights practice group, is general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, which vigorously opposes affirmative action and bilingual education and focuses, as well, on immigration and redistricting.
		Owen has been criticized as one of two justices on "the far right wing" of the Texas court, further to the right than Bush's own appointees to that court when he was governor.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/CAH/feddieSoc.html (11703 words)

	George Bush Sr. on Civil Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Until the Religious Right got involved because of their concerns on drugs, decline in family, shifting views on homosexuals or divorce, no one gave much of a damn.
		We might not have agreed with the more liberal activists when they were up in arms, but we said okay, let them do their thing.
		Most of them (while believing deeply) are not totally intolerant of the views of others.
	www.govote.com /Celeb/George_Bush_Sr__Civil_Rights.htm (300 words)

	Civil Rights: Political Leaders' views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We shouldn't change our views on the sanctity of marriage.
		Voted that US civil rights laws not apply to South Africa.
		Co-sponsored bills for equal rights for women in education.
	www.ontheissues.org /Civil_Rights.htm (1072 words)

	National Libertarian Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	www.lp.org /issues/platform/womerigh.html (185 words)

	Grange Insurance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Delegate John Leopold is not seeking re-election to his seat in order to run for Anne Arundel County Executive.
		Delegate Don Dwyer looks to be challenged due to the controversial nature of his views and actions since the 2002 election, including his campaigning for the Constitution Party nominee in opposition to President George W. Bush.
		This will create a tough time for the two candidates joining him on his ticket, including Pat Corcoran.
	www.google-insurance.com /insurance/grange-insurance.shtml (2707 words)

	Reason
		Blunt political opportunism, not fancy libertarian ideas, is most of what's left of the '94 revolution Matt Welch (8/8)
		The right obesity policy does not hinge on the latest numbers Jacob Sullum (7/15)
		Reason asks libertarian legal experts: Who are your favorites—past, present, and future—on the nation's highest court?
	www.reason.com (2101 words)

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