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CIVIL LIBERTY AND CIVIL ORDER
1. Crime in a Free Society
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Personal Liberty
Freedom of Speech, Belief, and Lifestyle
Equal Freedom
Privacy
Reproductive Rights
Food and Medical Decisions
Freedom from Crime
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Virtual War Room
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Definition and Criteria
The Directional Principles approach is to have a...
Ayes: David Aitken, Bob Capozzi, Donny Ferguson, Henry Haller, Brian Holtz, Alicia Mattson, Guy McLendon
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Introduction
The Subcommittee proposes that the Platform Committee...
The fundamental question here is whether the landscape of attainable levels of liberty has no local maxima, i.e. whether an investment in force initiation could ever lead to a net reduction in the...
The current LP Pledge is required by section 5.1 of the bylaws:
Members of the Party shall be those persons who have certified in writing that they oppose the initiation of force to achieve...
Arguments That It Doesn't
The 1972 Platform seems to explicitly admit the state's authority to use coercion. Its Statement of Principles said "the sole function of government is the protection of...
Roy Childs argued persuasively that it does, in his famous 1969 open letter to Ayn Rand.
The state is that institution (or hierarchy of institutions) maintaining in a geographic region a formal...
Excludability is the ability of producers to detect and prevent uncompensating consumption of their products. Rivalry is the inability of multiple consumers to consume the same good. A public good...
Anarchist
Minarchist
Taxation is theft.
Untaxed pollution is theft.
We don't just want lighter chains. We want freedom.
Where human predators are unchained, only the strongest are free.
War...
Myriad variations on the Major Schools of Libertarianism can be derived by changing the dials on the many free variables in libertarian theory, such as:
Enfranchisement variables
rights of...
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Holtz Healthcare Plank
Healthcare is both one of the trickiest and most important issues that the LP needs to address. One thing that makes it tricky is that it is subject to multiple kinds of...
"Every statement purporting to express a dispute among libertarians embeds a strawman or a fallacy of the excluded middle — and this statement is no exception."
Democrats advocate personal freedom but legislate economic equality. Republicans advocate economic freedom but legislate personal morality. Libertarians advocate both personal freedom and economic...
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Iraq Cassandras: No, They Did Not Tell Us
My Iraq Mistake
Anti-War Doesn't Grow The LP
Principled Minarchism
Some minarchists hold that people should not be allowed to free-ride on the contributions of others toward guaranteed access to a system for protecting life, liberty, and...
LP Radicals regularly disparage efforts to make the Platform more accommodating of the non-anarchist majority of libertarians, using epithets like "nerf", "lite", "more-of-the-same", "wishy-washy",...
A tax on aggression — like a pollution tax, or other Pigovian taxes on negative externalities — is not itself aggression.
A tax on the economic rent of land is aggression only if you disagree...
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The mission of the Libertarian Party is to unite voters who want more personal liberty and more economic liberty behind the electoral choices that will most effectively move public policy in a...
Current Bylaws Article 3 (adopted in 1998)
The Party is organized to implement and give voice to the principles embodied in the Statement of Principles by: functioning as a libertarian political...
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Defining Libertarianism
A libertarian is a person who believes that the role and incidence of aggression are to be minimized — i.e. that the role and incidence of liberty are to be maximized....
Neither of the two Nanny State parties questions the need for any of the following policies. None of these programs are means-tested, and none of them are for protecting people from aggression....
This page informally records opinions stated by PlatCom members on proposed Bylaws changes. Inclusion of a proposal in this list is of course no guarantee that the PlatCom will even take a position...
NOTE: This is a personal archive of reference materials created and administered by Brian Holtz. It is not an official publication of the 2008 LP Platform Committee, though some members of the...
In August and September of 2007 the prospective PlatCom members brainstormed criteria they would use to evaluate Platform proposals, and informally counted how many members subscribed to each. The...
Very few voters read platforms. Exit polls in 1994 showed that a majority of voters had never heard of the Contract With America, let alone read it — and the LP Platform won't be announced on the...
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Current LP Pledge
I oppose the initiation of force to achieve political or social goals.
[No Pledge is mentioned in the original 1972 LP Constitution, Bylaws, and Convention Rules, but it was...
Fixes for semantic bugs
Extra defense for candidates
Extra guidance for candidates
General style improvements
General: change 1st-person "we" to 3rd-person "Libertarians" [MC RSB]
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Preamble
As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives, and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of...
David Nolan, LP founder and Restore04 organizer, on 2008-01-12 in private email:
I actually rather like your proposal. Clearly, you spent a lot of time researching past platforms, and did a good...
Rival
multiple consumers cannot consume the same good
Non-Rival
multiple consumers can consume the same good
Excludable
consumption can be detected and prevented by producer
Private...
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Who supports it?
Why is it 100% recycled?
What is its structure?
What are the criticisms of the Pure Principles...
A Directional Principles subcommittee vote will be considered complete when
a majority votes one way or the other, or
when 1) a quorum (half plus one) of members have expressed opinion about or...
2.2. The Environment
Rename to "Environment and Resources", and add: Pollution of other people's property is a violation of individual rights, and so is verifiable endangerment of a species or...
This is how the LPUS Platform would look if all and only the changes currently recommended by the Platform Committee were applied to it. These recommendations were adopted by PlatCom in its Feb...
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1.5. Crime and Justice
1.6. Self-Defense
2.2. The Environment
2.4. Government Finance and Spending
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The Libertarian Party seeks to radically reduce the size, scope and power of government. To that end, we offer this list of federal agencies to abolish (or make private and voluntary); federal laws...
(As part of my re-formatting of the '04 platform, I abandoned the so-called Atlanta format, and I added a number to each sentence of
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Washington, DC, June 4, 1995
WELCOME TO THE NEW MAINSTREAM!
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Water Utility Pricing - Patrick Mann (Reason Foundation, 1993)
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Anarcholibertarians ask for a complete overturning of how the American polity provides for its common defense and secures its members' right to life, liberty, and property. According to the three...
Anarcholibertarians ask for a complete overturning of how this polity provides for its common defense and secures its members' right to life, liberty, and property. According to the three leading...
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Everyone is created with an equal right to protect the rights of other individuals....
