What does the Libertarian Party stand for?

What does the Libertarian Party stand for?

Matthew Jones (Political Science Instructor) gives expert video advice on: What does the Libertarian Party stand for?; How did the Libertarian Party start?; How is the Libertarian Party changing? and more...

The Libertarian Party is small government in all its forms. That means laissez-faire economics, which is the government stays out of the free market as much as possible. It also means that the government stays out of people's private lives as much as possible, too. It kind of creates an interesting aspect where they want small government, they want free market economics, but then they also don't want the government telling people things, a lot of times, about abortion, about marriage, or about these other sorts of things, so it's kind of small government across the board. One way to put it is the term we use, which is the night watchman state, where the state's just there to make sure nothing bad happens. It's not there to actually promote things.