Welcome to the website of the Libertarian Party of Marion County in Indiana.
We are affiliated with the national Libertarian Party and the Libertarian Party of Indiana.
The Libertarian Party is the third largest political party in the United States.
The Libertarian Party is the only party, aside from the Democrats and Republicans, with ballot access in the state of Indiana.
As the name implies, the Libertarian Party values individual liberty. We, like our nation's founders, believe it to be "...self-evident that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness..." These sentiments, from the Declaration of Independence, are echoed by the Preamble to the Constitution, which states that the Constitution of the United States was established to "...secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."
But what is liberty? It is the right of each person to make the choices that effect that individual. That right is limited only by the equal right of other individuals.
Today's government, elected officials, bureaucrats, political appointees, and employees display no respect for the principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, or your liberty. Libertarians believe that government exists to protect your rights, not to trample on them, disregard them, or restrict them.
"Government is essentially the negation of liberty."
Economist Ludwig von Mises