My platform is similar (but not identical) to the Cato Institute's 600-page Handbook for Congress, which is available as a single 3Mb PDF file.  I have five major disagreements with the Libertarian Party Platfrom.

Principles Subjects of Ethics Ojbects of Ethics Ethical Relations Purpose of the State Duties of the State Powers of the State Restrictions on the State Personal Liberty Expression Religion Sexuality Birth and Death Psychotropics Risk-Taking Personal Security Negative Externalities Criminal Justice Arms Privacy

Economic Liberty Employment Consumption Real Property Intellectual Property Economic Security Natural Resources Sustenance & Shelter Health Care Education Retirement Macroeconomic Policy Government Finance Money Markets Artificial Monopoly Natural Monopoly

Microeconomic Policy Agriculture Health Care Energy Transportation Communications Transnational Policy Interplanetary, Global East Asia Europe, Americas Southwest Asia Military Policy Franchise Personhood, Citizenship Nascency, Senescence Sexual Orientation Species Membership Governance Representation Organization Procedure Territory, Secession

1. Principles

1.1. Subjects of Ethics

A being is any entity possessing life, sentience, or intelligent volition, and are the only entities that have rights. There are two classes of beings: persons and organisms. A person is any intelligent being with significant volitional control over how it affects other beings.

• All persons have the right to life and liberty.
• All beings have the right not to suffer torture or extinction.

Thus persons are obligated to minimize the incidence of

• deaths of persons;
• extinctions of species;
• aggression; and
• torture.

1.2. Objects of Ethics

Property is anything that an agency has the exclusive right to possess, use, and assign.

• Property can be anything that is not a person and that can be created or controlled by a person.
• A person has a right to access any unowned resource to which they have been exercising continuing access.
• A person owns any unowned unaccessed thing over which he exerts original control.
• A person owns anything he creates from his property and resources rights.
• A person owns any property, property right, or resource right consensually assigned by its rightful owner.
• Each property, property right, and resource right of a person, upon his death, either goes to a chosen assignee or reverts to being unowned.

A resource is any physical or logical supply or space which exists without intelligent sustenance and is easy to use in part but hard to control as a whole, such as air, land, water, pollution sinks, sunlight, wind, views, fish, game, minerals, meteorites, space, orbits, bandwidth, public namespaces, etc. Polluting or monopolizing a resource is aggression against the persons who have been exercising continuing access to it. A possessable resource is one, such as land or sunlight, of which a part may be controlled such that any outsider's use of it is easily detectable by the controller. Even privatized property interests in unpossessable resources are subject to the tragedy of the commons, because the owner cannot readily identify who is violating his interest.

1.3. Ethical Relations

Persons have no right to inflict negative externalities impacting property and resource rights, and no right to demand compensation for positive externalities.

Cooperation is the interaction among persons for mutual benefit. Cooperation is usually positive-sum even for direct and reversible exchanges, because the exchanging persons have differing needs or values. The right of association is the right of persons, except in cases of anti-competitive monopoly, to cooperate or decline to cooperate with whom they choose. Cooperation can take many forms. A contract is an explicit understanding among consenting agents to exchange with or affect each other in a specified way.

Aggression is the violation by a person of another person's rights, and consists only of: personal injury, damage to property, infringement of resource rights, coercion, fraud, anti-competitive monopoly, or inducement or deceptive incitement of third parties to any of these. Coercion is compulsion of one person by another through force or threat of aggression. Fraud is any attempt  to profit by deceiving a person into making a choice intended to cause him economic harm relative to what would have been his undeceived choice. Anti-competitive monopoly is the intentional control or denial of a person's participation in an industry by the coordinated action of the person(s) controlling that industry.

Competition is the contrary efforts of persons to win the consent of some other person(s) to associate in some way. The infliction of opportunity costs through non-monopolistic competition does not by itself constitute aggression. Expression is only aggression if it involves deception that intentionally or negligently causes actual harm or serious risk thereof, for example by yelling "fire!" in a crowded (but not burning) theater. Non-deceptive incitement to aggression is not itself aggression.

Justice is the minimization, reversal and punishment of aggression. Injustice is unminimized, unreversed, or unpunished aggression. The minimization of coercion can itself justify a minimal amount of coercion. Coercion should be reversed by payment of damages or, if possible, reparation of the original property or access rights to the coerced persons. Serious coercion should be punished by loss of freedom, personal interaction, and even life.

Liberty is volition in the absence of aggression. Thus justice can also be defined as the most liberty for the most persons. Freedom is significant volition: the power of making significant decisions about an agent's own actions. The freedoms of two persons can be in complete conflict, but their liberties by definition cannot.

1.4. Purpose of the State

A state is an organization of persons that has control and sovereignty over a particular region and the persons in it.  To meet their obligation to minimize death, extinction, aggression, and torture, the persons in a region join together in a social contract to create or authorize the state. The purpose of the state is to

• Effect justice (the minimization, reversal, and punishment of aggression);
• Provide aid and sustenance to persons in mortal danger;
• Protect species in danger of extinction;
• Prevent torture;
• Regulate natural monopolies; and
• Provide pure public goods.

1.5. Duties of the State

The specific duties of the state are therefore to

• Minimize, reverse, and punish foreign aggression
  • Deter and defend against foreign attack
  • Regulate international trade
  • Manage annexations and secessions
• Minimize, reverse, and punish domestic aggression
  • Minimize, reverse, and punish coercion
    • Prevent force and fraud
    • Protect property
    • Enforce contracts
    • Protect resource rights
      • Protect ongoing access to unowned resources
      • Collect rent for use (e.g. pollution) of unpossessable resources
    • Regulate bankruptcy
    • Regulate incorporation
  • Minimize, reverse, and punish anti-competitive monopolies
    • Regulate natural monopolies
    • Prevent anti-competitive artificial monopolies
• Provide aid and sustenance to citizens and residents in mortal danger, such as
  • the indigent
  • dependent persons with no guardian
• Prevent torture
• Protect species and ecosystems

1.6. Powers of the State

The powers of the state necessary for carrying out its duties are to

• Tax - a taking of property by a state from a class of its subjects according to rule ordained in a duly enacted law.
  • Establish a currency as legal tender for public debts
  • Collect rent for use of unpossessable resources
    • Tax resource consumption and pollution
    • Rent resource access to the highest bidders
  • Tax consumption, income, or trade
• Take or regulate private property for fair compensation, to help to
  • Regulate natural monopolies
  • Prevent anti-competitive artificial monopolies
  • Prevent threats to public safety such as epidemic, flood, pestilence, and weapons of mass destruction
  • Protect species and ecosystems
• Establish police and regulatory services to prevent domestic aggression
• Establish a military to minimize, reverse, and punish foreign aggression
• Establish a judiciary to try cases of fact and law
• Regulate the definition of personhood for elections, citizenship, adulthood, marriage, incorporation
• Manage spaces annexed or donated to the state

1.7. Restrictions on the State

In no case may the state

• Commit torture
• Restrict any person's non-coercive expression or belief
• Establish or endorse any religion
• Treat persons inequitably on the basis of ethnicity, sex, age, or belief
• Deny any person equal representation
• Compel labor, except through wartime military conscription
• Take property without fair compensation
• Confiscate or tax wealth or inheritance, as opposed to the change in wealth through consumption, income, or trade
• Search or seize persons or property without a warrant of probable cause
• Compel self-incrimination
• Annex a space without the consent of a supermajority of the persons residing or owning property or accessing resources there
• Permit the secession of a region if
  • a supermajority in the region does not approve, or
  • secession threatens the security of the state, or
  • the region would get a free ride from the state's exercise of its duties.

2. Personal Liberty

2.1. Expression

Ban only defamation. Unrestricted campaign contributions & spending, but require instant e-disclosure.