- American Civil Liberties Union
“The ACLU is our nation’s guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.” (“Rights” defended by the ACLU include equal access to government benefits, so harder core freedom advocates take issue with some of its work.)
- Bill of Rights Defense Committee
The BORDC is a national grassroots organization defending the rule of law and rights and liberties challenged by overbroad national security and counter-terrorism policies. They support an ideologically diverse movement to protect and restore these principles by encouraging widespread civic participation; educating people about the significance of our rights; and cultivating grassroots networks to convert concern, outrage, and fear into debate and action.
- Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Seeks to promote economic prosperity by advocating competitive markets and limited government. Known for their Coalition for Tax Competition: “Because it is increasingly possible for people to shift their economic activity across national borders, governments face pressure to reduce tax rates in order to keep investment and entrepreneurial talent from moving to lower-tax environments. This is what is known as tax competition and it is an important check on excessive government. High-tax nations, not surprisingly, want to stop tax competition. ... The international bureaucracies are wrong. Competition, privacy, and sovereignty are inherent features of a free society.”
- Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
A national nonprofit organization dedicated to reform of federal and state asset forfeiture laws to restore due process and protect property rights in the forfeiture process.
The media have documented hundreds of cases of innocent citizens wrongfully deprived of their homes, businesses and livlihoods. 80% of property forfeited to the U.S. during the previous decade was seized from owners who were never even charged with a crime. Until the advent of FEAR, law enforcement officials promoting expanded forfeiture laws comprised the overwhelming majority of lobbyists at hearings on forfeiture litigation.
- Future of Freedom Foundation
- Mission is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government. “The time has come for us to reevaluate our relationship to our government – to repeal, not reform, these immoral and destructive government programs.” Excellent articles; those from flagship Freedom Daily become available online several months after print version is published.
- The Independent Institute
A non-profit, non-partisan, scholarly research and educational organization that sponsors in-depth studies of critical social and economic issues. The mission of the Independent Institute is to boldly advance peaceful, prosperous, and free societies grounded in a commitment to human worth and dignity. In order to fully understand the nature of public issues and possible solutions, the Institute’s program adheres to the highest standards of independent scholarly inquiry.
- International Society for Individual Liberty
- A network of individuals and associations in over 90 countries dedicated to building a free and peaceful world through the ideals of free markets, social tolerance and individual responsibility. The mega-resource for libertarian activism around the world.
- The Property & Freedom Society
- Th PFS stands for an uncompromising intellectual radicalism: for justly acquired private property, freedom of contract, freedom of association – which logically implies the right to not associate with, or to discriminate against, anyone in one’s personal and business relations – and unconditional free trade. It condemns imperialism and militarism and their fomenters, and champions peace. It rejects positivism, relativism, and egalitarianism in any form, whether of “outcome” or “opportunity,” and it has an outspoken distaste for politics and politicians. As such it seeks to avoid any association with the policies and proponents of interventionism, which Ludwig von Mises identified in 1946 as the fatal flaw in the plan of the many earlier and contemporary attempts by intellectuals alarmed by the rising tide of socialism and totalitarianism to found an anti-socialist ideological movement.
- Tenth Ammendment Center
An American think tank that works to preserve and protect the principles of strictly limited government through information, education, and activism. The center serves as a forum for the study and exploration of state and individual sovereignty issues, focusing primarily on the decentralization of federal government power as required by the Constitution. Named after the Tenth Ammendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was intended to confirm the understanding that powers not explicitly delegated to the U.S. federal government were reserved to the States or to the people.