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Minarchism
Anarcho-capitalism
Paleolibertarianism
Geolibertarianism
The term libertarian is also claimed by libertarian socialism (also called left libertarianism). ...
In civics, Minarchism, sometimes called minimal statism, is the view that government should be as small as possible. ...
Anarcho-capitalism refers to an anti-statist philosophy that embraces capitalism as one of its foundational principles. ...
Paleolibertarianism is a school of thought within libertarianism founded by Murray Rothbard and Lew Rockwell, and closely associated with the Ludwig von Mises Institute. ...
Geolibertarianism is a political philosophy that holds with other forms of libertarianism that the products of ones labor should be privately owned and controlled. ...
Influences
Objectivism
Austrian School
Classical liberalism
Individualist anarchism
Objectivism is the philosophy of Ayn Rand. ...
The Austrian School is a school of economic thought which rejects opposing economists reliance on methods used in natural science for the study of human action, and instead bases its formalism of economics on relationships through logic or introspection called praxeology. ...
Liberalism is a political current embracing several historical and present-day ideologies that claim defense of individual liberty as the purpose of government. ...
Individualist anarchism is a philosophical tradition, appearing primarily in the United States, that emphasises the autonomy of the individual, most noteably in regard to its advocacy of private property rather than collective property. ...
Practices
Capitalism
Non-aggression principle
Capitalism has been defined in various ways (see q:Capitalism). ...
In general, the non-aggression axiom can be said to be a prohibition against the initiation of force, or the threat of force, against persons (i. ...
Key issues
Economic views
Views of rights
Theories of law
Criticism
The Austrian School of economics and the Chicago School of economics are important foundations the economic system favored by modern libertarians — capitalism, where the means of production are privately owned, economic and financial decisions are made privately rather than by state control, and goods and services are exchanged in a...
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...
Libertarian theories of law build on libertarianism or classical liberalism. ...
Libertarianism is a political philosophy that supports largely unrestricted property rights and opposes most government functions (such as taxation, prosecution of victimless crimes and regulations on businesses beyond the minimum required to prevent fraud or property damage) as coercive, even if a democratic majority supports it. ...
| The Free West Alliance (FWA) is an organization attempting to enhance liberty in the three states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, both by concentrating freedom-seekers there via immigration, and by energizing the large, existing freedom-loving populations within these states. State nickname: Gem State Other U.S. States Capital Boise Largest city Boise Governor Dirk Kempthorne Official languages none Area 216,632 km² (14th) - Land 214,499 km² - Water 2,133 km² (0. ...
State nickname: Treasure State Other U.S. States Capital Helena Largest city Billings Governor Brian Schweitzer Official languages English Area 381,156 km² (4th) - Land 377,295 km² - Water 3,862 km² (1%) Population (2000) - Population 926,865 (44th) - Density 2. ...
State nickname: Equality State Other U.S. States Capital Cheyenne Largest city Cheyenne Governor Dave Freudenthal Official languages English Area 253,554 km² (10th) - Land 251,706 km² - Water 1,851 km² (0. ...
FWA was created shortly after the selection of the state of New Hampshire by an earlier American political migration movement, Free State Project (FSP). FWA founders were predominantly either former members of FSP who had "opted out" of New Hampshire in that organization's state selection process, or others who had in various ways associated with FSP but not signed on formally. State nickname: The Granite State Other U.S. States Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Governor John Lynch Official languages English Area 24,239 km² (46th) - Land 23,249 km² - Water 814 km² (3. ...
Political migration is any migration motivated primarily by political interests. ...
The Free State Project (FSP) is a plan to have 20,000 or more (self-proclaimed) liberty-oriented people move to a single state of the United States, where it is intended they will influence local political policy. ...
The reasons for the creation of FWA are many, most prominent being the dissatisfaction many westerners felt over the selection of an eastern state, for simple geographical reasons as well as for the cultural split that became evident in the Free State Project discussion forums between "westerners" and "easterners". Note, some in the "western" faction actually lived in the east, and vice versa.
Free West Alliance has also become associated to some degree with similar Canadian movements, and with the Free State Wyoming (FSW) project which in some ways predates even the Free State Project. The Free State Wyoming logo Free State Wyoming (FSW) is a political migration project whose goal is to bring people of demonstrably ethical character to the state of Wyoming in the western United States to encourage political liberty, free trade and voluntary cooperation. ...
The Montana and Wyoming branches of FWA are the most active. Evidence of prior, small freedom migration movements to Wyoming has also turned up in discussions on the various email lists associated with FWA. Both Montana and Wyoming have well-deserved reputations for being relative havens of freedom within the United States, so informal and individual migrations there for that purpose are apparently ongoing.
External links
- Official Site of Free West Alliance (http://www.freewest.org/)
- Free State Wyoming (http://www.freestatewyoming.org/)
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