minarchists

These "minarchists," or "limited government libertarians," believed with Ayn Rand that "[t] he proper functions of a government fall into three broad categories […]: the police, to protect men from criminals - the armed services, to protect men from foreign invaders - the law courts

LewRockwell.com 2009

Most Tea Partiers, libertarians and Objectivists including Ayn Rand were and are minarchists, who believe that governments should exist to defend the nation and maintain law and order, but should do very little else.

The Tea Party rules Washington as Barack Obama braces for savage cuts 2011

If you understand the ways in which anarchists, minarchists, or "Big L"/Neolibertarians differ, then I think you can expect a certain level of predictability...to a point.

Are Libertarians Especially Predictable?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I suppose I would be tolerant enough to draw libertarianism's boundaries fuzzily enough to include, at the edge, soft minarchists like Friedman.

Strands of Libertarianism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The Framers were minarchists, not anarchists: they understood perfectly well that if you lie down with anarchists, you wake up with warlords.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism and Culture, Round II 2009

Personally I'm an anarcho-capitalist, but willing to consider even some minarchists to be intellectual brethren.

Strands of Libertarianism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Adam Reed made a provocative case for a liberal occupation that might interest some minarchists reading this.

Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #33 2009

I think arguments between "anarcho capitalists" and "minarchists" are profoundly dull and confused because they presuppose a bright line of division between markets and states that simply doesn't exist.

Confusion in Political Theory, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

If minarchists believe in limited government, then they believe in the right to make anarchistic arrangements not viable by prohibiting at least some individual people from seceding or otherwise withdraw their allegiance from the minimal state in favor of competing defense associations, or in favor of individual self-defense.

In which I fail to be reassured 2008

Taken together, they undermine the legitimacy of any form of government authority, including the limited government imagined by minarchists.

Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – February – 13 2008