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Libertarian Party Uk Manifesto Foreword FREE STATES LIBERTARIAN PARTY UK MANIFESTO FOREWORD The Libertarian Party believes there is always someone else to wants to ensure that this country placed to understand what is that we are at a cross roads in blame. has a Cons�tu�on that protects in their best interest than the state. Bri�sh Poli�cs in which the next Luckily we are also seeing a great the individual and treats all parts few years will decide the direc�on deal of awareness in the general of the country in an even manner. ■ That those who have power of travel for the foreseeable public who are star�ng to see In this Manifesto we will set out must be held accountable for future. The par�es who make up how rigged the system is and are our policies for a future their ac�ons. the Westminster cabal have looking for an alterna�ve. We are confedera�on of free states ■ That power should be shown that they believe that the that alterna�ve. We are the party where power is devolved devolved so it is as close to people are there to serve them, that puts the rights of the wherever possible and innova�ve, the people who are affected not the other way round. individuals ahead of the rights of modern solu�ons are used to by it as possible. We are entering a period in which unions or donors. We are the create the good in an efficient Alongside these principles we the two main par�es are party that will remove barriers to way (in place of that which is have also called on the descending to their extremes trade allowing the economy to beloved by the other par�es: the experience of other countries which for the Conserva�ve Party stand on its own feet status quo). basing our policies, wherever is in-figh�ng, and chaos, and an unencumbered by unnecessary The Manifesto of the Libertarian possible, on systems that have abandonment of the free market. regula�ons. We are the party that Party has been built on five basic been tried and tested elsewhere For Labour it is a push to take wants to remove poli�cal principles. and which the evidence shows private property by force, for interference from your everyday work well. ■ That the overall effect of all example, to na�onalise healthy life, freeing important services our policies together shall This Manifesto provides an companies in an ideological like Health Care and Educa�on decrease the size and power alterna�ve to more of the same, a shake-down as well as to add an from poli�cal point scoring and of the state. pathway away from the ever increasing burden of taxa�on pu�ng them in the hands of the Westminster rule we know to on middle earners and future service providers or users: the ■ That the rights of the somewhere more prosperous, less genera�ons, yet at the same �me people who know what is most individual are paramount and should be nurtured. authoritarian and less dangerous, stoking class divisions to ensure needed. We are the party that ■ That the individual is be�er more protec�ve of the ci�zen and 2 | FREE STATES | LIBERTARIAN PARTY UK MANIFESTO © 2019 Libertarian Party | LibertarianParty.co.uk less willing to boss her around for her own good or, as is more commonly the case, to her harm. Our respect for each individual is embodied in the procedures of our party, such as our policy crea�on procedure, declared in the policies in our Manifesto which fuels the lamp with which we light the way to the place where we hope you will find your poli�cal home as a member, or supporter, of the Libertarian Party UK. We are the party that will set you personally above the collec�ve and by doing so free the country to be be�er than ever before. Adam Brown Party Leader FREE STATES | LIBERTARIAN PARTY UK MANIFESTO | 3 © 2019 Libertarian Party | LibertarianParty.co.uk. CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM A WRITTEN CONSTITUTION FOR BRITAIN The Libertarian Party’s proposed as well as to define its “That government is best wri�en cons�tu�on embodies delegated powers. the following basic concepts, ■ There is a separa�on of namely that: powers horizontally between which governs least.” ■ The Cons�tu�on be federal the Execu�ve, Legisla�ve and - attr. Thomas Jefferson in nature, with each Judicial branches, and par�cipa�ng State sovereign ver�cally between the and with an equal voice in the general government and the The Libertarian Party believes: ■ That the Monarchy should be compact. States. permi�ed only as long as it ■ In having a wri�en has the formal approval of the ■ The people of each state are ■ The Cons�tu�on is a legal Cons�tu�on that holds the People, and should be the ul�mate sovereign body document with fixed Individual to be above the subordinate to the of each State. meaning, not a living or State. flexible document open to Cons�tu�on. ■ All individuals are possessed ■ That a limited government interpreta�on. That all public servants should of inalienable natural rights to with both horizontal and ■ swear allegiance to upholding life, liberty, property, and all ■ All officers shall be bound by ver�cal separa�on of powers, the Cons�tu�on, and be liable other rights that derive from an oath to the Cons�tu�on, and vigorous checks and in Law for misconduct and them. and that breach of that oath balances, will best preserve be considered a serious fraud. ■ The poli�cal en�ty this the Liberty of the People. ma�er. ■ That the First Past the Post Cons�tu�on creates be called ■ That Great Britain should be a vo�ng system should be the Confedera�on of the Free ■ The Confedera�on will aid in Confedera�on of Free States, replaced with a form of States of Britain. preserva�on from external and that the People a�ack and from conflict Propor�onal Representa�on. ■ The purpose of the determine their own poli�es. between the States. Cons�tu�on is to restrain and ■ That it should be confirmed in limit the general government Law that the People are Sovereign. 4 | FREE STATES | LIBERTARIAN PARTY UK MANIFESTO © 2019 Libertarian Party | LibertarianParty.co.uk ■ The general government be electoral college so as to have a sunset clause of not funded equally by the States. allow the people of each State more than 10 years. a say, avoid demagoguery, ■ The general government shall ■ A yearly budget bill list and keep the States from consist of a bicameral spending and costs for the being disenfranchised. legislature, a Cons�tu�onal year. Court, and an Execu�ve. ■ The Chief Execu�ve be First ■ The State court in any state is Ambassador, have a line-item ■ The Monarchy con�nue only the final court of appeal in non-blocking veto over laws, in a private manner, subject to that State, and that no case and be commander-in-chief of the will of the people. can be appealed or brought to military forces in �me of the Cons�tu�onal Court ■ The lower house of the declared war. unless it is strictly a ma�er of Legisla�ve branch consist of a ■ Officers be suscep�ble to a federal nature. chamber elected by the impeachment; elected people of each State to be a ■ A two-thirds vote of State officials to expulsion; guardian of the rights of the Legislatures can veto a members of the upper house people, a reflec�on of the decision made by the open to recall by State broad range of values and Cons�tu�onal Court; and legislatures. a�tudes of the people, and to individuals and states can sue hold the key of the treasury of ■ Only the Legisla�ve branch for injunc�ve relief against the Confedera�on. shall have power to declare laws deemed war. uncons�tu�onal. ■ The upper house of the Legislature consist of a ■ Military power be the chamber elected by the State bailiwick of the States and not legislatures to be a guardian the general government. of the sovereignty of the ■ The general government have States and the presiding body no power to borrow money. of the Confedera�on, especially tasked to the ■ The general government have Confedera�on as a whole and no power to erect to foreign ma�ers, and of corpora�ons. approving appointments ■ Bills require passage in both made by the Execu�ve. houses, can be vetoed by the ■ The Chief Execu�ve and his Execu�ve, must be short and deputy be elected by an pertain to one subject, and FREE STATES | LIBERTARIAN PARTY UK MANIFESTO | 5 © 2019 Libertarian Party | LibertarianParty.co.uk. DEFENCE POLICY “CARDWELL 2.0” Firstly, a Libertarian Government Each of the three arms are We will make no nation would seek to avoid war, we will currently ac�ng as independent make no na�on our ‘natural forces but we will seek to enemy’ and will seek good integrate them. This will be part our ‘natural enemy’ and diploma�c rela�ons and trade of our root and branch re- with all countries. However, any appraisal of defence which we call will seek good diplomatic poten�al aggressor should be in Cardwell 2.0 a�er the last major no doubt of our willingness to reform (1868-1874) following the defend our way of life and debacle of the Crimea War.
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