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The Libertarian Association of Massachusetts (LAMA), previously known as the Libertarian Party of Massachusetts, [a] is a libertarian political party in Massachusetts. It was affiliated with the national Libertarian Party from its founding until 2022, and is now affiliated with Liberal Party USA .
The Libertarian Association of Massachusetts disaffiliated and co-founded the Liberal Party USA, but Mises hardliners split and formed their own party, the Unified Libertarians of Massachusetts, which the national party recognized as the official libertarian branch in the state. [4] [2] [5]
In May 1955, the term libertarian was first publicly used in the United States as a synonym for classical liberal when writer Dean Russell (1915–1998), a colleague of Leonard Read and a classical liberal himself, proposed the libertarian solution and justified the choice of the word as follows: Many of us call ourselves "liberals."
As a term, libertarian or economic libertarian has the most everyday acceptance to describe a member of the movement, with the latter term being based on both the ideology's importance of economics and its distinction from libertarians of the New Left. [88] A diagram of the typology of beliefs in libertarianism (both left and right, respectively)
[3] Libertarians hold that positive rights, which would include a right to be protected, do not exist until they are created by a contract. However, those with this view do not mean that police, for example, are not obligated to protect the rights of citizens.
"Libertarians represent the Constitution, the Founding Fathers' viewpoint of how a free society should function," Catherine McDivitt said. "I think the promotion of that is the most important ...
Other libertarians such as geolibertarians or left-libertarians believe the Earth cannot legitimately be held in allodium, that usufructuary title with periodic land value capture and redistribution avoids both the tragedy of the commons and the tragedy of the anticommons while respecting equal rights to natural resources.
Twenty years ago, on May 17, 2004, Mary Bonauto, the lead attorney in the case that made Massachusetts the first state to grant same-sex couples the right to marry, attended the wedding of two of ...