To be legitimate, government's powers must be grounded in the consent of the governed.
There have been six constitutions promulgated in Nepal since 1940s.We believe that these constitutions failed because every other Constitution always directed less attention to individual liberty and limited government. The civil liberties of the people stem from the right to the property. It means resources at hand make people less vulnerable to exploitation.
We believe on market liberalism. It combines an appreciation for entrepreneurship, the market process, and lower taxes with strict respect for civil liberties. A just society is possible only if the market forces play independent roles. It cures the discrimination; we oppose the state-sponsored discrimination in any form.
We are all free to pursue happiness as we wish, by our own lights, provided we respect the equal rights of others to do the same. There, in a nutshell, is the basic moral order. It was captured in large measure by the classic common law, grounded in property and contract—''property'' referring broadly, as John Locke put it, to ''Lives, Liberties, and Estates.''
We are all free to pursue happiness as we wish, by our own lights, provided we respect the equal rights of others to do the same. There, in a nutshell, is the basic moral order. It was captured in large measure by the classic common law, grounded in property and contract—''property'' referring broadly, as John Locke put it, to ''Lives, Liberties, and Estates.''
It is with that moral vision in mind that we create government to secure those rights. But not any government will do. To be legitimate, government's powers must be grounded in the consent of the governed. Thus, legitimate government is twice limited—by its ends, which any of us would have a right to pursue was there no government, and by its means, which must be consented to. There are no other rights but individual rights, and these rights are inviolable - which essentially means that they are carved in stone. That each individual has the right to exercise sole dominion over her/his life, and to live in whatever manner she/he may choose, so long as she/he does not violate the equal rights of others. Each individual must have the right to self-determination, the necessary extension of the right to life, which should render illegal any attempt to aggress against any individual or to seize the product of his/her labor.
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