4. maintaining the doctrine of free will. One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state. One who believes in free will. Libertarians favor freedom and oppose government action to promote either equality or order. The doctrine of libertarianism stresses the right to self-ownership and, by extension, the right to private ownership of material resources and property.
Advocates oppose any form of taxation and favor a laissez-faire economic system.
Libertarianism is the view that each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others. Libertarians defend each person's right to life, liberty, and property-rights that people have naturally, before governments are created. The American Founders created a society based on the belief that human happiness is intimately connected with personal freedom and responsibility. The twin pillars of the system they created were limits on the power of the central government and protection of individual rights. . . . A few people, of whom I am one, think that the Founders' insights are as true today as they were two centuries ago.