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political libertarianism  

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  • Libertarianism is a theory of justice that holds that agents initially fully own themselves and have moral powers to acquire private property rights in external things. It judges nonconsensual force against a person to be just only when it is necessary to prevent that person from infringing someone's rights or to impose rectification for such infringement (e.g., compensation or punishment). [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Libertarianism, Political]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-VLWD93Z3-1

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