libertarian

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LIBERTA'RIAN, adjective [Latin liber, free; libertas, liberty.] Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity. Remove from their mind libertarian prejudice.
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