Libertarian political practice

Effective libertarian political practice would work like this:

1. Make a group chat with friends who mostly agree with you.
2. Study the great works on the topic and agree on a body of Natural Law which is specific and detailed.
3. Judge various real-world events according to it, and publish the rulings on a website.
4. Have procedures to enable scaling and establish a succession, i.e., add new judges to your group chat who can be expected to keep the character of your legal philosophy.

This would mean nothing until some people, probably libertarians at first, find that your rulings are fair and decide to trust you to arbitrate some of their real-world disputes, and/or until some ruler of a somehow newly-independent territory decides to entrust your group with its law.

The name of your group in Step #1 could be something like “Natural Law Study Group”, but should probably change depending on the character of the system arrived at in Step #2, e.g., if your legal philosophy agrees mostly with Pufendorf, you could style yourselves the Pufendorfian Association.

Step #3 would get you credibility, since it would show that your legal ideas can be applied to practice, and could also get you publicity, because you could potentially generate some drama by publishing a judgment on controversial issues, such as Israel and Palestine.

Step #4 is crucial in the long term, but not so much to begin with.

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