Civil libertarianism

Short description: Strain of political thought

Civil libertarianism is a strain of political thought that supports civil liberties, or which emphasizes the supremacy of individual rights and personal freedoms over and against any kind of authority (such as a state, a corporation, social norms imposed through peer pressure and so on).[1]

## Contents

* 1 In the libertarian movement
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 3.1 Citations
* 3.2 Works cited

## In the libertarian movement

In the domain of libertarian philosophy, the primary concern of civil libertarians is the relationship between government and individuals. In theory, civil libertarians seek to restrict this relationship to an absolute minimum in which the state can function and provide basic services and securities without excessively interfering in the lives of its citizens. One key cause of civil libertarianism is upholding free speech.[2] Specifically, civil libertarians oppose bans on hate speech and obscenity.[2] Although they may or may not personally condone behaviors associated with these issues, civil libertarians hold that the advantages of unfettered public discourse outweigh any disadvantages, and that the coercion of speech is inherently wrong.[2]

Other civil libertarian positions may include support for full or partial legalization of illicit substances, prostitution, privacy, assisted dying or euthanasia, the right to keep and bear arms, youth rights, topfree equality, separation of church and state, full or partial opposition to involuntary commitment and outpatient commitment, and support for same-sex marriage.[citation needed]

With the advent of personal computers, the Internet, email, cell phones and other advancements in information technology, a subset of civil libertarianism has arisen that focuses on protecting individuals' digital rights and privacy.[citation needed]

## See also

* Civil and political rights
* Cultural liberalism
* Left-libertarianism
* Right-libertarianism
* Liberty

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ "Civil libertarian". Dictionary.reference.com. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/civil libertarian?r=14.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Massaro 1991, p. 222-227.

### Works cited

* Massaro, Toni M. (1991). "Equality and Freedom of Expression: The Hate Speech Dilemma". William and Mary Law Review 32 (2): 211–265. http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1923&context=wmlr.

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Libertarianism

Origins|

* Age of Enlightenment
* Anarchism
* Aristotelianism
* Liberalism
* Radicalism

Schools of thought|

| Libertarian socialism
(Left-libertarianism)|

* Anarchism
* Collectivist
* Free-market
* Agorism
* Left-wing laissez-faire
* Left-wing market
* Green
* Individualist
* Insurrectionary
* Libertarian communism
* Mutualism
* Panarchism
* Social
* Autonomism
* Bleeding-heart libertarianism
* Communalism
* Geolibertarianism
* Georgism
* Green libertarianism
* Guild socialism
* Libertarian Marxism
* Participism
* Revolutionary syndicalism

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Libertarian capitalism
(Right-libertarianism)|

* Anarcho-capitalism
* Autarchism
* Christian libertarianism
* Conservative libertarianism
* Consequentialist libertarianism
* Fusionism
* Libertarian transhumanism
* Minarchism
* Natural-rights libertarianism
* Paleolibertarianism
* Propertarianism
* Voluntaryism

Concepts|

* Anti-authoritarianism
* Anti-capitalism
* Antimilitarism
* Anti-statism
* Argumentation ethics
* Class struggle
* Communes
* Counter-economics
* Crypto-anarchism
* Decentralization
* Direct action
* Economic democracy
* Economic freedom
* Egalitarianism
* Expropriative anarchism
* Federalism (anarchist)
* Free association (Marxism and anarchism)
* Free love
* Free market
* Free-market environmentalism
* Free migration
* Free society
* Free trade
* Freedom of association
* Freedom of contract
* Global Justice Movement
* Gift economy
* Homestead principle
* Illegalism
* Individualism
* Individual reclamation
* Liberty
* Localism
* Natural and legal rights
* Night-watchman state
* Non-aggression principle
* Non-voting
* Participatory economics
* Polycentric law
* Private defense agency
* Propaganda of the deed
* Property is theft
* Really Really Free Market
* Refusal of work
* Restorative justice
* Self-governance
* Self-ownership
* Single tax
* Social ecology
* Spontaneous order
* Squatting
* Stateless society
* Tax resistance
* Title-transfer theory of contract
* Voluntary society
* Workers' councils
* Workers' self-management

People|

* Stephen Pearl Andrews
* Mikhail Bakunin
* Frédéric Bastiat
* Walter Block
* Murray Bookchin
* Jason Brennan
* Bryan Caplan
* Kevin Carson
* Frank Chodorov
* Noam Chomsky
* Grover Cleveland
* Calvin Coolidge
* Voltairine de Cleyre
* Joseph Déjacque
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
* David D. Friedman
* Milton Friedman
* Mahatma Gandhi
* Henry George
* William Godwin
* Emma Goldman
* Barry Goldwater
* David Graeber
* William Batchelder Greene
* Daniel Hannan
* Friedrich Hayek
* Auberon Herbert
* Karl Hess
* Thomas Hodgskin
* Hans-Hermann Hoppe
* Michael Huemer
* Penn Jillette
* Gary Johnson
* Samuel Edward Konkin III
* Janusz Korwin-Mikke
* Étienne de La Boétie
* Rose Wilder Lane
* David Leyonhjelm
* Roderick T. Long
* Lord Acton
* Tibor Machan
* Wendy McElroy
* Ludwig von Mises
* Gustave de Molinari
* Albert Jay Nock
* Robert Nozick
* Isabel Paterson
* Ron Paul
* Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
* Ralph Raico
* Ayn Rand
* Leonard Read
* Murray Rothbard
* Joseph Schumpeter
* Julian Simon
* Herbert Spencer
* Lysander Spooner
* Max Stirner
* John Stossel
* Thomas Szasz
* Henry David Thoreau
* Leo Tolstoy
* Benjamin Tucker
* Josiah Warren

Issues|

* Anarcho-capitalism and minarchism
* Criticism
* Intellectual property
* Internal debates
* LGBT rights
* Objectivism
* Political parties
* Theories of law

Books|

* Anarchy, State, and Utopia
* Atlas Shrugged
* For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
* Free to Choose
* Law, Legislation and Liberty
* The Market for Liberty

Related|

* Anti-collectivism
* Anti-communism
* Anti-fascism
* Anti-socialism
* Austro-libertarianism
* Center for Libertarian Studies
* Civil libertarianism
* Constitutionalism
* Economic liberalism
* Fusionism
* Green libertarianism
* Libertarian conservatism
* Libertarian socialism
* Libertarian Democrat
* Libertarian Republican
* Libertarian science fiction
* Libertarianism in South Africa
* Libertarianism in the United Kingdom
* Libertarianism in the United States
* Objectivism
* Public choice theory
* Small government
* Technolibertarianism

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