minarchy

plural minarchies

1. countableuncountablegovernmentGovernment with the least necessary power over its citizens.

   But even the most minimal minarchy, at some point, must claim its citizens' exclusive allegiance

   2012, Charles Johnson, “Toward a Dialectical Anarchism”, in Roderick T. Long, Tibor R. Machan, editors, Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country?, page 156

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   This "minarchy," often dubbed the "nightwatchman State," reduced to police (and possibly army), is their historical ideal - and even in present days that of philosopher Nozick, for instance.

   2005, Serge-Christophe Kolm, Macrojustice: The Political Economy of Fairness, page 373

   In minarchy the owner of a property is the sole owner of the private propety and what comes out of it.

   2011, Farhoud Rastegar, From Bushman to Bush: As History Has Brought Us to a Point of No Return, page 101

   Synonyms: night watchman state