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

• “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…

• ““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

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

  Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #45

• ““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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “It's the theoretical anarchism which justifies and enjoins the minarchism, rather than a mere unprincipled preference for less government.”

  "Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea."

• “It does not mean minarchism or Constitutionalism because minimal government is a hopeless impossibility.”

  Shorter Bonaduce

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