What It Means to Be a Libertarian A Personal Interpretation

Name: What It Means to Be a Libertarian A Personal Interpretation
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ISBN: 9780767900393

ISBN-10: 0767900391

ISBN-13: 9780767900393

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Charles Murray

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Charles Murray believes that America's founders had it right--strict limits on the power of the central government and strict protection of the individual are the keys to a genuinely free society. In What It Means to Be a Libertarian, he proposes a government reduced to the barest essentials: an executive branch consisting only of the White House and trimmed-down departments of state, defense, justice, and environment protection; a Congress so limited in power that it meets only a few months each year; and a federal code stripped of all but a handful of regulations. Combining the tenets of classical Libertarian philosophy with his own highly-original, always provocative thinking, Murray…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/29/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.43" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Introduction



The Framework


Principles


The Public Good


The Pursuit of Happiness


An Image of Limited Government



How Would it Work?


The Trendline Test


Choosing to Do It Ourselves


Removing Government from Economic Life


Tolerance and Discrimination


Permitting Revolutions in Education and Health Care


Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll


Protecting the Environment


Removing Government from Civil Life


Loose Ends



Is it Possible?


Gloom and Hope


Government As "Them"


The Demand to Be Left Alone


Lived Freedom


The Stuff of Life


Conclusion


Sources and Acknowledgments