Word: libertarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because every opposition party has to fight to get on that ballot, many of them are particularly incensed by the campaign of Eugene J. McCarthy, which tended to work through the courts rather than through signature collection. David E. Long, national committee member of the Libertarian Party--not on the Massachusetts presidential ballot this year--angrily describes the court decision in Arkansas putting McCarthy on the ballot there, and a later decision by the same court not to hear the Libertarians on the same issue. Long attributes McCarthy's success to his stature as a national figure and leftover glory...
...Libertarian Party: Based on a philosophy most eloquently presented by John Stuart Mill, this party is so opposed to government intervention that is platform sometimes verges on the anarchistic. Anything is alright between consenting adults, so to speak, from abortion to free enterprise, including union contracts and hiring 12-year olds. Unlike the American Party, the Libertarians demand a strict enforcement of civil rights and liberties, since its philosophy calls for equal opportunity--but not reverse discrimination or quota systems, which is why it calls for passage of the ERA but an end to affirmative action programs. While the Libertarians...
...then, its role as a great power had paradoxically placed the country in the position of opposing its own historic origins and libertarian roots. In addition, the impressive progress of its economy had led to the creation of formidable nuclei of economic power, not subject to the constitutional controls imposed by the system on the civil Government, that endanger the workings of democracy at its very foundations...
White is a libertarian and belongs to the "Sons of Liberty," the Harvard Libertarian society...
...thorough in checking his credentials. In 1964, at the age of 18, Raymond was convicted of armed robbery. Paroled early, he was arrested again and returned to prison to finish his sentence. He appealed to Labor M.P. Tom Driberg (now Lord Driberg), who had a long record of espousing libertarian causes. Driberg interested himself in Raymond, his constituent, at one point even writing a letter to the Times arguing that Raymond should be released to marry and attend university, thus preventing him "from being a chronic nuisance to the public and a permanent expense to the taxpayer...