Libertarian Party of Allen County

ARTICLE II “ STATEMENT OF PURPOSE, FUNCTION, AND PRINCIPLES

Sec 1. Purpose. The primary purpose of the LPAC is to promote individual liberty and to eliminate the
intervention of government in moral, social, and economic affairs by fielding and supporting Libertarian
candidates for public office.

Sec 2. Functions. To recruit, nominate, and elect candidates for all county, city, township, and town
offices within Allen County; to assist the LPIN in recruitment, nomination, and election of candidates to
State legislative and U.S. Congressional offices that affect all or part of Allen County; to select LPAC
delegates and alternative delegates to the annual business meetings of the LPIN ™s annual convention,
hereinafter referred to as the œState Convention .

Sec 3. Principles.
a. That all people possess certain natural rights, to wit: the right to life, liberty, justly acquired property,
and self-governance.
b. That the only moral basis of government is the preservation and protection of those rights.
c. That no person or institution, public or private, has the right to initiate the use of physical force or fraud
against another person or institution, and that all people are bound, without contract to abstain from
infringing upon the natural rights of other people.
d. That all people are entitled to choose their own lifestyles so long as they do not forcibly impose their
values on others.
e. That the voluntary and unrestricted exchange of goods and services is fundamental to a peaceful and
harmonious society.