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( Minarchism)
In civics, minarchism, sometimes called minimal statism, small government, or limited-government libertarianism, is the belief that the only proper role of the government is to protect individuals from aggression.[1] Minarchists believe that a state is necessary, but should be minimal enough to protect the liberty and property of each individual. They generally believe in a night watchman state, limited to courts, police, defense, prisons and taxes. The term was coined in 1970 or 1971 by Samuel Edward Konkin III, an agorist. He was dismayed of using limited-government libertarianism and sought to invent the shorter term minarchism.[2][3] Many minarchists consider themselves also as libertarians. The term is perhaps most often used to differentiate libertarians and classical liberals who believe a state is necessary to maximize individual liberty, from the market anarchists who believe that the state itself should be opposed because it infringes on individual liberty. Minarchists are generally opposed to economic regulations of certain[specify] sectors of the economy. However, most minarchists support some level of government funding, including perhaps taxation in some limited cases, as long as individual liberty and the non-aggression principle are not compromised.[4] Some minarchists use utilitarian arguments, as they compromise the non-aggression principle by taxation. They might use theoretical economic arguments, like Ludwig von Mises's contribution to Austrian economics, or statistical economic research, like the Indices of Economic Freedom.
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