Declaration of Principles

Português

Wishing to celebrate every individual´s diversity and identity, his and her inalienable rights to Life, Liberty and Property, the right to self defense, defining a Person as fundamentally a moral being, guided by the imperatives of order and prosperity, and observing violations of these principles in the current political spectrum, we declare our membership of the Libertarian Party with the following Programmatic Lines:



We defend that the individual, the families and the communities gathered either geographically or through a communion of principles, should be assured their own private sphere of conscience and autonomous action. We believe that by protecting the honestly earned property, individuals may fully enjoy the fruits of their creativity and labor resulting from voluntary cooperation in the form of markets and entrepreneurial initiative. We recognize in the parishes and municipalities the ability to assume all the competencies within the general principle of subsidiarity and whose participation in the national constitutional order is presumed to be voluntary. We intend to promote freedom of choice in the internal and external competition for the demand and supply of goods and services. We apply the same principles to currency and to arbitration courts. We observe that any political regime tends to create a majority of individuals directly and indirectly benefiting from the state budget (funded by taxes, debt and the issuing of currency) putting increasingly at risk the decision-making capability regarding the common good, given that such decision-making power should be exempt of conflicts of interests and immune to biases in a distorted competition environment. Along with its open participation in the european and international political order, Portugal must ultimately preserve its independent decision-making authority, to pursue its own interests and values as a sovereign nation.

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