Free State Project

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The Free State Project (FSP) is an American political migration movement founded in 2001 by Jason Sorens. In his original article "Announcement: The Free State Project," published in The Libertarian Enterprise (issue #131, "Let's Secede!"), the declared purpose of the movement was to form an independent libertarian nation, or failing that, to gain concessions from the federal government of the United States. By Sorens' calculations, a migration of 20,000 libertarians to a single low-population state would be sufficient to transform the state into a libertarian utopia. Another article by Sorens published in the next issue of The Libertarian Enterprise (#132, August 1, 2001) backed away somewhat from the urgency of secession, though taking over the state government remained its stated priority. New Hampshire was selected in 2003 for this purpose. Participants in the FSP signed a statement of intent declaring that they intended to move to New Hampshire within five years of the drive reaching...

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