Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

To: dagogo redux

Simple and helpful libertarianism test:

“Do you believe the federal government should or does have the power to strike down state laws covering personal behavior (such as homosexuality, drug use, marriage, abortion)?”

If any answer yes they are not libertarians- they are advocates for government power.

The view of the Founders needs no discussion.


57 posted on 03/17/2013 12:42:10 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]


To: mrsmith

“Simple and helpful libertarianism test:

“Do you believe the federal government should or does have the power to strike down state laws covering personal behavior (such as homosexuality, drug use, marriage, abortion)?”

If any answer yes they are not libertarians- they are advocates for government power.

The view of the Founders needs no discussion.”

BTT


60 posted on 03/17/2013 12:46:00 PM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies ]

To: mrsmith

Homosexualizing the military? Recognizing “married” lesbians and homosexuals and soon to be polygamy, which the military must decide on?

Abortion as a personal choice? Open borders and eliminating the Border Patrol and the INS?

Libertarians have quite an agenda.


64 posted on 03/17/2013 12:55:55 PM PDT by ansel12 ( “I would not be in the United States Senate if it wasn’t for Sarah Palin,” Cruz said.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies ]

To: mrsmith

Actually, they DO have some constitutional power regarding marriage.


66 posted on 03/17/2013 12:58:49 PM PDT by DrewsMum
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies ]

To: mrsmith

Great answer sir, as always.

For me, as with you, the view of the Founders needs no discussion, or very little, but I thought it would provoke some interesting discussion here if I posed the question.


151 posted on 03/17/2013 4:24:55 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson