minarchism
Definitions
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- noun Belief in the desirability and practicality of minimum government.
Examples
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(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.)
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“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.”
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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.
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On the other hand, the prime distinction I would draw between minarchism and institutional anarchism is that I simply think minarchism is, as you say, naïve: it appears to be unstable based on the historical record.
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Now I don't believe in pure anarchy, but I do believe in the classical minarchism where the role of the government is very small; namely for sovereign nation border defense and as the judicial system (which was basically what the U.S. was at its inception).
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There is a dramatic difference between what I’ll call Randian minarchism–advocating a strong, limited government–and Rothbardian anarcho-capitalism, which treats all government as intrinsically evil I’ll leave it to you to ponder the deontological implications of thisPOV.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism and Culture, Round II
Note
The word 'minarchism' was coined in 1971 by Samuel Edward Konkin III, as a blend of 'minimum' or 'minimal' and '-archy' ("government") + -ism (“system”) .
