Issues in the News

The Free State Project is a nonprofit corporation with a single, very narrow mission: to encourage 20,000 libertarians and liberty-minded individuals to move to New Hampshire, so that they might then exert some measure of influence in reducing the role of government and increasing the sphere of civil society.

We purposely avoid defining any particulars about the forms this influence might take, because libertarians are a diverse lot. The FSP itself performs no change activism of any sort.

While the FSP takes no stand on any specific issues, what our position would be if we were to take a vote could probably be derived from our Statement of Intent, which concludes thus:

"...I will exert the fullest practical effort toward the creation of a society in which the maximum role of civil government is the protection of life, liberty, and property."

As activists, FSP participants occasionally find themselves in the news, where the FSP might be mentioned. These people are generally *not* representing the FSP, and in fact other FSP participants may disagree with them completely. This is in fact the case in two recent controversies, Civil Disobedience and Eminent Domain.

Here is a list of issues, with pages that provide descriptions and resources for further study: