New Hampshire’s Free State Project – How Freeing a Single State from “Government” Could Free Us All

Could New Hampshire be the 1st U.S. State to Kick Out "Government" and See its Economy Flourish?

 By Etienne de la Boetie², Founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation and author of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed!

People around the world are organizing various efforts to secure an area with political sovereignty to implement societies free from the control system of “government.” The largest and most exciting is the Free State Project in New Hampshire.

The Free State Project has organized over 24,000+ activists who have pledged to move to New Hampshire and campaign actively for its political independence. The group has already moved and organized over 6,200+ in the state, with more arriving every week and has spent over a decade successfully rolling back laws, getting libertarians elected to office, and building the political and social networks needed for societal change. I believe if we free New Hampshire, then we, ultimately, can win freedom everywhere, as we demonstrate, through a single “laboratory-of-liberty,” that you can have harmony and prosperity without “government”.

The Free State Project started in 2001 when a political science student, Jason Sorens, then a Ph.D. student at Yale, published an article highlighting the failure of libertarians to elect any candidate to federal office and outlining his ideas for a secessionist movement, calling people to respond to him with interest. That response led to the organization on the Internet, and the Free State Project was born without a specific state in mind. 

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The initial participants began a systematic review of the US states with a sub-1.5 million population to determine which state would be the easiest to take over.  Participants analyzed such variables as population, spending by political parties, the make-up of the legislature, and the percentage of libertarians in the state.  Hawaii and Rhode Island were eliminated for their political propensity to centralized government, and a “bake-off” was held in September of 2003 between Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming.  New Hampshire edged out Wyoming (57% vs. 43%) in the final vote.

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