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Background/Other
- Snapshot/permalink (Aug. 27, 2025)
- Kinsella’s Annotations and Commentary on The Universal Principles of Liberty (forthcoming)
- Fundamental Principles of Justice
- Supplemental Principles
- Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston: Papinian Press, 2023) [LFFS]
- “Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society,” in LFFS
- On the Role of Commentators and Codes and the Oracles of the Law
- The Systemic Function of General Principles (International Law)
- Libertarian Nation and Related Projects (cataloging various libertarian “free nation” and related projects)
- On the Non Liquet in Libertarian Theory and Armchair Theorizing
- Examples of Libertarian Law vs. Louisiana vs. French vs. Common Law: Consideration and Formalities
- Roman Law and Hypothetical Cases
- KOL020 | “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society: Lecture 3: Applications I: Legal Systems, Contract, Fraud” (Mises Academy, 2011)
- “The Voluntaryist Constitution”
- Legislative Positivism and Rationalism in the Louisiana and French Civil Codes
- The Golden Age of America is Now
- Twitter post and feedback
Press/Commentary
- Kinsella, “Announcing The Universal Principles of Liberty,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] (25 Aug 2025)
- Fusillo on the Universal Principles of Liberty and Liberland
- KOL478 | Haman Nature Hn 185: The Universal Principles of Liberty
- KOL473 | The Universal Principles of Liberty, with Mark Maresca of The White Pillbox
- Announcement of Future Plans for the Principles (forthcoming Oct. 2025)
Origins of the Projects
For more detail, see Announcing the Universal Principles of Liberty.
Last year I was contacted by one “Freemax” about drafting a document that could serve as the basis for a new, free country. Not a constitution or similar statist document, as had been attempted with other projects such as Liberland, but a systematic statement of the basic principles of libertarianism, sometimes called anarcho-capitalism and voluntarism. We enlisted fellow attorneys and libertarian legal scholars Alessandro Fusillo, 1 David Dürr, 2 and Patrick C. Tinsley 3 to consult on this project. Hans-Hermann Hoppe served as adviser and “Godfather” to the project.
I first drafted a concise statement of libertarian principles, “The Fundamental Principles of Justice.” It was intended to include only essential principles and exclude those not fully settled among libertarians, such as abortion. Further principles and applications were to be left for secondary or supplemental statements of principles, agreements and covenants, and development of concrete law (legal precepts) by a decentralized legal system, with reference to the work of libertarian scholars and past legal systems such as the Roman law, the Anglo-American common law, and modern civil law.
This served as the basis for “The Universal Principles of Liberty,” a collaborative effort authored by all of us, which has now been published and inscribed on the Blockchain here (Thurs., Aug 14, 2025). It is reproduced below.
More details about the project will be forthcoming, and I plan to provide a detailed Commentary on the Principles as well as proposed Supplemental Principles. Stay tuned…
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[Published Thurs., Aug 14, 2025; TheUniversalPrinciplesofLiberty.com]