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minimal state  

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  • Libertarianism, and the classical liberalism from which it sprang, supports a strictly limited state, if indeed its adherents recognize the legitimacy of the state at all. The minimal state is a notion found within a particular variant of the limited-government variety of libertarianism. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism; Minimal State]

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