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libertarian

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having the beliefs of libertarians; having a relative tendency towards liberty. n. 1 One who advocates liberty either generally or on a specific issue, ''e.g.'' "civil libertarian" (in favor of civil liberties). 2 (context chiefly US English) A believer ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Libertarian \Lib`er*ta"ri*an\ (-t[=a]"r[i^]*an), a. [See Liberty .] Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE civil ▪ I need not remind you civil libertarians out there that this is our system working, not failing. ▪ He also fired his lawyer and told civil libertarians to mind their own business. ▪ The Leahy-Goodlatte Bills ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1789, "one who holds the doctrine of free will" (opposed to necessitarian ), from liberty (q.v.) on model of unitarian , etc. Political sense of "person advocating liberty in thought and conduct" is from 1878. As an adjective by 1882. U.S. Libertarian Party ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who believes the doctrine of free will [ant: necessitarian ]

Usage examples of libertarian.

So to assure the impartial accomplishment of justice is not an abridgment of freedom of speech or freedom of the press, as these phases of liberty have heretofore been conceived even by the stoutest libertarians.

Young Conservative and Young Socialist and Libertarian literature, a group of Anachronists clustered on a lawn around two masked and gauntleted men with their wooden battle-swords, striking at one another while their referee or marshall or whatever they called him circled slowly around the fighters.

Families, churches, lodges, clubs, and corporations are either more authoritarian than libertarian or more libertarian than authoritarian.

I know of nothing in libertarian theory that makes coercion morally legitimate merely because the coercers and their victims live in the same part of the world, speak the same language, or have the same color skin.

Not just your Wobblies, but the Neo-Nihilists, the Libertarians, the Luddites, the Gay Libbers, and all the rest.

After about a century of bloodshed and the eventual suppression of the last libertarian fanatics, the Septagon orbitals had gravitated toward the free-est form of civilization that was possible in such a hostile environment: which meant intensive schooling, conscript service in the environmental maintenance crews, and zero tolerance for anyone who thought that hanging separately was better than hanging together.

Actionists, beatniks, hippies and serial killers were all pure libertarians who affirmed the rights of the individual against social norms and against what they believed to be the hypocrisy of morality, sentiment, justice and pity.

The Libertarians want to reform the present Welfare State by granting more GAS for all proles, by pushing through still further rights for women and gays.

But the real territorialization of the Internet - the redrawing of its internal contours and the withdrawal of its libertarian foundations - is more pernicious, all-pervasive, quotidian, and surreptitiously gradual.

The whole shebang: Libertarians, Nihilists, Wobblies, the Anti-Racist Leagueeverybody but those Eurocommunist slobs.

The same libertarian standards applied to rhinoplasties or hemorrhoidectomies or even brain surgery: Rudy Graveline was a licensed physician, and legally that meant he could try any damn thing he wanted.

The quintessential Libertarian argument for drug legalization is that people should be allowed to do what they want with their own bodies even if it ruins their lives.

One noted software libertarian, Richard Stallman, even refused to protect his account with a password.

The electronic civil libertarians, however, have proven to be born political animals.

Unlike the other groups in this book, the civil libertarians have operated very much in the open, more or less right in the public hurly-burly.