Libertarian party (Freeland)

The Libertarian party was the second largest republican party in the Kingdom of Freeland. It originated from the republican militias after they were defeated at the seige of the Aundar during the Great war in 1905. The victorius Prince Philip executed the republican leaders causing a power struggle between different republicans on the issue of presidentialism and parliamentarianism. The Libertarian party was born from the parliamentarian wing of the republican movement. The party is comprised up of different elements, the mainstream libertarians who support a republican goverment with minimal powers and free trade and lower taxation and the whigs who support republicanism however they wish to maintain the soverignty of parliament whilst the libertarians seek soverignty for the people.

History
The republican movement became far stronger with parliamentarianists forming the majority in the Freelander Parliament during the Great war in the 1890s. This was because of the growing fears surronding King Joseph Alexanders increasing depotism during the conflict. The Prime minster George Globberton who was a whig became critical of the King's invasion of Donber over the county of Masan in 1883. Globberton also wished for Freeland to change from an economy based upon physical resources to one based upon stock exchange which the king opposed to. Globberton tried to get the issue of the King's powers to be raised by parliament however it just produced gag laws on the subject, Globberton became dismissive of both parliamentarianism and royalism. When King Joseph Alexandar abdicated in 1905, Globberton declared Freeland to be a republic which was ruled by him and his executive council. The executive council was made up of Globberton's former cabinet with royalists being replaced by republican politicians. After the republicans were defeated by Prince Philip and the royalists they were detained and many of them were executed. Philip restored parliament in 1907 and he allowed for republican parties to exist under the new Freelander consitution under the freedom of speech and political belief. However it remained illegal to remove the King from power, with the result being a military coup which would restore the monarchy if any goverment tried.

The Republicans were split between Parliamentarianism and presidentialism. Globberton had been able to balance the issue with pleasing both sides, he kept parliament although it was only a rump and he increased his own powers since he was head of state.However Globberton was beheaded for treason after the seige and the new republican leader Lois Antoine was seen as too much of a militarist with too much royalist sympathies, Antoine left Freeland for New Donber. The Libertarian party was formed from the parliamentarianists.

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