Nick Styles, a former supporter of environmental campaigner Ralph Nader, is attracted to Mr Paul's civil libertarian stance.

Although most of its leading members are former members of the Italian Socialist Party and thus have social-democratic roots, the group expresses liberal and libertarian stances.

"He has always had a near libertarian stance on keeping government out of people's lives."

He usually espouses a conservative or libertarian stance in his cartoons, calling himself a contrarian.

He has written non-fiction books that offer a libertarian stance on privacy, police encounters, tax resistance and gun politics.

His second book, in 1981, was a textbook on political theory with a "definite libertarian stance".

The libertarian stance does, however, offer a high-minded rationale for policies based on other considerations.

Finally, Sabin and the WONPR took a libertarian stance that disapproved of federal involvement in a personal matter like drinking.

His positions spanned the social spectrum, ranging from his conservative opposition to abortion to his more libertarian stances advocating immigration reform.

The FpO took a civil libertarian stance on hate speech and the rights of individuals to express political opinions, whether those opinions are rational or irrational, unoffensive or offensive, popular or unpopular.