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[muriel_volestrangler]

15. Libertarians think he is their founder; and they attach themselves to "states' rights" movements

and "states' rights" movements are frequently excuses for the slavery of southern states.

What libertarians see in Locke:

The Limits of the Sovereign: By definition, moral sovereignty can only be that which protects the individual liberty; all else is tyranny (immoral power of one over another). Lock had argued that the role of civil government was only to protect the public good and “Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like.”

http://www.class.uidaho.edu/engl_258/Lecture%20Notes/social_contract.htm

(Notice 'possession', rather than the less materialist, and more empathetic, 'pursuit of happiness' of the Declaration of Independence).

And libertarians like smaller units of government, like states, rather than countries. So they throw their lot in with the other states' rights fanatics - the white supremacists, who are still trying to paint the American Civil War as an attack on states, and nothing to do with slavery at all, no sirree - and who also think that states shouldn't have to listen to federal laws like the Civil Rights Acts.