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; Self-ownership
;Other people are not your property.

;Party membership

;Absolute rights (despotic dominion)

;inalienable (unalienable) rights

;non-aggression principle
;non-coercion principle
;non-interference (Lester, Billy Christmas)
;no proactive constraints (Lester)

;no initiation of force or fraud
;Libertarianism claims to do nothing other than answer the question of when violence is permissible. (Cantwell)

;individual liberty
;liberty to be the most important value
;the ideology which prioritizes liberty above other endeavors

;maximize individual freedom
;All persons are entitled to maximum freedom consistent with equal liberty for all.
;Principle of Freedom: All people are free to think, believe, and act as they choose, as long as they do not infringe on the equal freedom of others.
;For me, my core libertarian belief is that I have the freedom to do anything that causes no harm to others, their property, or nature.

;Freedom is first of all our birthright (Murray)

;People are responsible for their own actions

;concensus
;maximizing consent

;pricing of everything
;contract
;markets work
;the free market isn't perfect, but it is the best available system

;common law/torts

;responsibility

;Libertarianism is about non-favoritism.
;property
;private property ethic
;all rights are property rights

;rationality

;no public, only individuals
;there is no social entity . . . . there are only individual people (Nozick)

;a political movement that seeks to significantly reduce the size and scope of government
;minimal government
;small government
;government should be as small as possible
;critique of government
;Libertarianism is a theory about the proper role of the state in society.
;someone whose political views emphasize individual freedom by limiting the role of government.
;Libertarianism is the strand of liberal thought that focuses on the state as a threat to liberty.
;unnecessary intervention by the gov't

;you leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone
;a shared intuitive sense of what is mine and what is thine

;redistribution is the exploitation of the ‘makers’ by the ‘takers.’

;fiscally conservative, socially liberal

;Libertarians uphold the sovereignty of each adult individual in social life.

;self determination

;libertarians simply try to solve problems with more freedom instead of less

;Neutrality means that if one person is allowed to do something, all are.


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