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libertarians  

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  • Libertarianism focuses primarily on the drawing of robust boundaries where individual action—good or bad—ought to be free from intervention and coercion. As a political morality, it specifies the limits of state authority and the use of force, as well as the obligations imposed on the state to enforce rights and arbitrate between competing claims. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Libertarians]

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