Libertarian party

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Libertarian party
Libertarian Party Porcupine (USA) .svg
Party leader Nicholas Sarwark
Chairman of the Senate parliamentary group N / A
Chairman of the House of Representatives N / A
founding 1971
Alignment Libertarianism
Colours) Blue (unofficial), yellow (occasionally used to distinguish it from the Democrats )
Website [1]

The Libertarian Party ( German  Libertarian Party ) is a political party of the United States of America , which was founded in 1971. It is one of the largest "third parties" in the United States, with over 200,000 registered voters and over 600 officials. Chairman (Chairman) of the party organization, the Libertarian National Committee , has been Nicholas Sarwark since 2014 , who surpassed the previous chairman Geoff Neale (two terms, 2002-2004 and 2012-2014) in the election of the chairman.

The Libertarian Party advocates a libertarian politics: In business, it favors the laissez-faire , ie a largely free-market economy , at a political level a minimal state (state tasks on police, military and judiciary limited) by rejecting any intervention by the state in the Economy and social. The focus is on the individual rights and personal responsibility of the individual citizens.

Positions

The party principles include a self-regulating free market economy , the right to own weapons and the abolition of the state welfare system . In addition, the party advocates freedom of expression , freedom of assembly , free migration , legalization of drugs and a foreign policy without military intervention.

The party claims that government action should be limited to the framework set out in the constitution. As in any party, there are internal debates about the program and not all party members support full implementation.

Current political positions include lowering taxes, ending the bans on certain illegal drugs, supporting marriage for gay couples, and supporting the rights of American gun owners.

The party declares that its agenda is a consistent request for principles of mutual respect for rights and that it is very interested in individual freedom, as this is seen as a prerequisite for morality and stable societies. It rejects the view of politics as a one-dimensional left-right spectrum in which there is a distinction between “ left ” and “ right ” and the Democrats represent the left and the Republicans the right.

Some policy watchers consider the Libertarian Party to be right-wing (mostly because of its support for the carrying of arms and its view on taxes). Others see them as left because they advocate a foreign policy without intervention and free migration. On the two-dimensional political compass, it lies in the libertarian, economic right-wing area.

history

Party founder David Nolan

The Libertarian Party was founded on December 11, 1971 by David Nolan . This was preceded by a debate on the establishment of a libertarian party. Contributors to this debate were John Hospers , Ed Crane , Manual Klausner , Murray Rothbard , Roy Childs , Tonie Nathan and Jim Dean . President Richard Nixon's rapidly introduced price controls led the Libertarian Party to believe that Republicans and Democrats had distanced themselves from the libertarian principles of the American founding fathers.

In the 1972 presidential election , the party had grown to over 80 members and was allowed to vote in two states. The presidential candidates John Hospers and Tonie Nathan won a little less than 3,000 votes. But they received the first and only vote for a libertarian party in the electoral college from Roger MacBride , a Republican from Virginia .

In the 1980 election , the party could run in all states, the District of Columbia and Guam . It was the first time since the Socialist Party in the 1916 election that a third party had succeeded. The candidacy of Ed Clark and David H. Koch cost several million dollars. The two candidates received over one percent of the vote.

In 1983 there were internal disputes that led to former party leaders Ed Crane and David H. Koch leaving the party, and many of their supporters to follow suit.

In the 1984 election , the presidential candidate David Bergland ran in 36 states and received 0.25 percent of the vote. In 1994 radio host Howard Stern ran for election for the governor of New York . Although he legitimately qualified and campaigned, many viewed his ambitions for office as a promotional tool.

In 1996 and 2000 , Harry Browne ran as a presidential candidate. The nominee for vice president was Jo Jorgensen , a South Carolina entrepreneur . In these elections, the presidential candidate received between 0.5 and 0.75 percent of the vote.

Before the 2004 election , three candidates were fighting for the party's presidential nomination. Michael Badnarik prevailed. Badnarik received 397,367 votes. Despite the relative obscurity of Badnarik and the lack of funds available, this result was a success for the party.

For the 2012 presidential election , former Republican governor of New Mexico , Gary E. Johnson , was nominated as a candidate. It received about 1.2 million votes nationwide (less than 1%).

At its party congress in Orlando, Florida on May 29, 2016, the party re-elected Gary E. Johnson as its candidate for the upcoming 2016 presidential election . With the approval of the party assembly, this elected the former Republican governor of Massachusetts , Bill Weld , as running mate , ie candidate for the office of vice president.

Presidential candidates

Prominent party members

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Libertarians elect new leadership | Westmoreland Times. (No longer available online.) In: westmorelandtimes.com. Archived from the original on July 6, 2014 ; accessed on June 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / westmorelandtimes.com
  2. ↑ https://politicalcompass.org/uselection2016
  3. ↑ US election: Johnson to run as Libertarian candidate. BBC News, May 29, 2016, accessed May 29, 2016 .
  4. ^ Libertarians Pick Gary Johnson and William Weld as Presidential Election Ticket. The Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2016, accessed May 31, 2016 .