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== Contemporary libertarian organizations ==
{{category see also|Anarchist organizations|Libertarian parties|Libertarian publications|Libertarian think tanks}}
Since the 1950s, many American libertarian organizations have adopted a free-market stance as well as supporting civil liberties and non-interventionist foreign policies. These include the [[Ludwig von Mises Institute]], [[Francisco Marroquín University]], the [[Foundation for Economic Education]], [[Center for Libertarian Studies]], the [[Cato Institute]] and [[Liberty International (organization)|Liberty International]]. The activist [[Free State Project]], formed in 2001, works to bring 20,000 libertarians to New Hampshire to influence state policy.<ref>{{cite news|title=Libertarians Pursue New Political Goal: State of Their Own|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/us/libertarians-pursue-new-political-goal-state-of-their-own.html|first=Pam|last=Belluck|work=The New York Times|date=27 October 2003|access-date=26 May 2011|archive-date=13 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220113104541/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/us/libertarians-pursue-new-political-goal-state-of-their-own.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Active student organizations include [[Students for Liberty]] and [[Young Americans for Liberty]]. A number of countries have libertarian parties that run candidates for political office. In the United States, the [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian Party]] was formed in 1972 and is the third largest<ref>{{cite news|author=Elizabeth Hovde|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/hovde/index.ssf/2009/05/americans_mixed_on_obamas_big.html|title=Americans mixed on Obama's big government gamble|newspaper=The Oregonian|date=11 May 2009|access-date=6 September 2010|archive-date=21 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021232234/https://www.oregonlive.com/hovde/index.ssf/2009/05/americans_mixed_on_obamas_big.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gairdner|first=William D.|title=The Trouble with Canada: A Citizen Speaks Out|publisher=BPS Books|location=Toronto|year=2007|orig-date=1990|isbn=978-0978440220|pages=101–102|quote=The first, we would call "libertarianism" today. Libertarians wanted to get ''all'' government out of people's lives. This movement is still very much alive today. In fact, in the United States, it is the third largest political party, and ran 125 candidates during the U.S. election of 1988.}}</ref> American political party, with 511,277 voters (0.46% of total electorate) registered as Libertarian in the 31 states that report Libertarian registration statistics and [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ballot-access.org/2017/09/03/august-2017-ballot-access-news-print-edition/|title=August 2017 Ballot Access News Print Edition|website=ballot-access.org|date=3 September 2017 |access-date=23 March 2019|archive-date=7 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107212314/http://ballot-access.org/2017/09/03/august-2017-ballot-access-news-print-edition/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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