minarchism

(And, heck, if we're instead talking about a minimal but still-existent government - sometimes called minarchism, or simply "how the U.S. started" - then presumably it's the legislature's problem if there's really widespread social tension over an issue.)

ToddSeavey.com 2009

As far as minarchism/anarchism goes, I think Franks is representative of the kind of minarchism that I can’t see as anything other than evil, namely the sort of Civic Religionist “elections = democracy = the will of the people” sort.

Meanwhile, in Minarchistan… 2008

“One might reject all these lines of reasoning and insist on taking a libertarian position — one that moves even further towards abstract freedom and emphasis on minarchism than the classical liberals such as Locke and Mill would have accepted.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Wishful Linguistics 2010

“One might reject all these lines of reasoning and insist on taking a libertarian position — one that moves even further towards abstract freedom and emphasis on minarchism than the classical liberals such as Locke and Mill would have accepted.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Wishful Linguistics 2010

Given a state of peace which I am immensely grateful to finally share with my surrounding physical community, I am perfectly happy not only to assert a liberal rights theory as one component of a civic morality but to codify it as public law to be enforced, a la minarchism, by the state.

In which commentary becomes copy-and-paste 2009

If you go out to discuss Ayn Rand, anarchy vs. minarchism or economics or whatnot, you're going to stay away from football games, TVs and other such icons of butch masculinity.

Modeling the Man Date, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Now, one might salvage a reconceptualised form of Randian minarchism out of that.

Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #45 2009

If you go out to discuss Ayn Rand, anarchy vs. minarchism or economics or whatnot, you're going to stay away from football games, TVs and other such icons of butch masculinity.

Modeling the Man Date, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

“I am perfectly happy not only to assert a liberal rights theory as one component of a civic morality but to codify it as public law to be enforced, a la minarchism, by the state.”

In which commentary becomes copy-and-paste 2009

His mutualism is fairly close to where I would draw a golden mean between left-anarchism and anarcho-capitalism, even if I lean towards minarchism rather than anarchism.

Open thread on: localism, decentralism, anarchism, thick conceptions of libertarianism, and the U.S. Constitution 2009