44% of Americans agree when asked if they consider themselves "fiscally conservative and socially liberal, also known as libertarian".

The LP should unite all the voters who seek both more personal liberty and more economic liberty behind the choices available to them (or their representatives) that will most move public policy in a libertarian direction.

Platform Resources

• Platform Rules
• Archive of LP Platforms
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  • 1978 1976 1974 1972
  • 1972 Temporary LP Platform
• The Inside Story of the 2008 Platform Rewrite
• Platform Retention Votes 2002-2006
• Minutes of the Platform floor proceedings of the 1993 - 2006 LP Conventions
• Uses Of The LP Platform To Attack The LP
• Libertarian Outreach Literature
• State LP Platforms
  • California Platform and Program
  • Florida: none
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• Other Parties' Platforms
  • Socialist Party of America 1928 Platform
  • Platforms of parties receiving electoral votes 1840 - 2004
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  • Green Party USA (more radical party eclipsed by GP-US)
  • Democratic Freedom Caucus
    • Democratic Freedom Caucus Redacted Platform
  • Republican Liberty Caucus Statement of Principles and summary
  • "Third Parties 96" Common Ground Declaration
    • TP96 Common Ground Declaration Redacted
  • "Platform of the American People" - Newt Gingrich's top-ten list of populist proposals
  • Manifesto of the UK's Social Liberalist Party - tax land value and carbon instead of income, vouchers for health and education, free trade, eventual open borders
• Bills of Rights Archive - from the Codex Hammurabi (1760 BCE) to the EU Charter (2006)
• Libertarian Polling
• Top N Voter Issues

Platform Forums

• LPplatform-discuss
• PlatformFeedback@lp.org - feedback address announced 2007-09

Perspectives on Platform Purpose

• LP Platform is not a marketing document

LP Strategy

• 1971 - Nolan: The Case for a Libertarian Party
• 1978 - Rothbard: Strategies for Libertarian Victory
• 1978 - LNC Purpose and Strategy
• 1992 - LNC Mission and Goals
• 1999 - Bergland: Strategic Plan
• 2001 - LNC Strategic Plan
• 2004 - Holtz: Fix The LP
• 2005 - Rothbard Caucus
• 2006 - Libertarian Reform Caucus
• 2008 - Libertarian Radical Caucus

Bylaws Proposals

• Statement of Principles Proposals
• LP Purpose Proposals
• Pledge Proposals
• Slogan Proposals

Libertarian Policy Reference

• Cato Institute
  • Cato Policy Handbook - 700 pages
  • Cato Research - 11 broad areas
• Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Ten Key Ideas
  • Concise Encyclopedia of Economics - ~150 articles in 19 areas
  • Classic Texts - free and searchable
• Reason Foundation
  • Research Topics - environmental and state/local issues
  • Annual Privatization Report - 112pp
• Property and Environment Research Center
  • Federal and State Policy Guides
  • Free Market Environmentalism - comprehensive book
• Heartland Institute - specializing in education, environment, and health care
• Pacific Research Institute - education, environment, health care, and technology
• Institute For Justice - property rights, school choice, & more
• Friedman Foundation - school choice
• Mercatus Center at George Mason U. - economic theory, regulation, government oversight, public choice, globalization
• The Independent Institute - radical libertarian scholarship
• Ludwig von Mises Institute - searchable library of Austrian economics
• Adam Smith Institute - UK-based free-market think tank
• Progress & Freedom Foundation - energy and the digital revolution
• John Locke Foundation - state-level issues (focus: NC)
• Mackinac Center - state-level issues (focus: MI)

LP Archives

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• Convention Minutes
• Membership Statistics
• Publications

LP Advocacy

Material in this section represents the views of the contributing authors, which so far is just me. If you want to contribute opposing views, let me know.

• Major Schools Of Libertarianism
• Free Variables in Libertarian Theory
• Public and Private Goods
• Criticisms of Libertarianism on Wikipedia
• Criticisms of Anarcho-Capitalism on Wikipedia
  • Why Anarcho-Capitalism Is A Non-Starter - Sampson 1980
• Platform-Related Debates
  • Does The Pledge Mandate Zero-Aggression Absolutism?
  • Does the SoP Mandate Zero-Agression Absolutism?
  • Does Zero-Aggression Absolutism Imply Anarchism?
  • Does Zero-Aggression Absolutism Define Libertarianism?
  • More Libertarian Than Thou
  • Is Taxation Theft?
  • Are All Taxes Equally Bad?
  • Does Abstaining From Aggression Minimize It?
  • Are Aggression Trade-Offs Incalculable?
  • Does Archism Require Foretelling The Future?
  • Is Archism Just The Whim Of Archists?
  • Go Tax Yourself
  • What Empirical Evidence Supports Anarchism?
  • What Empirical Evidence Supports Minarchism?
  • Is Minarchism On A Slippery Slope?
  • Is Non-Anarchism Just Republican Lite?
  • Is Market Failure Impossible?
  • Do Markets Under-Produce Public Goods?
  • Can Torts Police All Negative Externalities?
  • Whence The Authority Of The State?
  • Dueling Bumper Stickers

About This Site

This site is operated by me, Brian Holtz, Secretary of the 2008 Platform Committee and Vice Chair of the 2010 Platform Committee. It's a successor to the MediaWiki-based PlatComWiki site that I was unofficially maintaining for the 2008 Platform Committee. Anyone who shares the goal for the LP described at the top of this page, or who offers constructive criticism of it, is welcome to join this wiki and contribute to it.