Dictionary

minarchy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmɪnə(ɹ)ki/
• /ˈmɪnɑː(ɹ)ki/

Etymology

From min(imum) + -archy.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Government with the least necessary power over its citizens.
   • But even the most minimal minarchy, at some point, must claim its citizens' exclusive allegiance 2012, Charles Johnson, “Toward a Dialectical Anarchism”, in Roderick T. Long, Tibor R. Machan, editors, Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country?, page 156:
   • This "minarchy," often dubbed the "nightwatchman State," reduced to police (and possibly army), is their historical ideal - and even in present days that of philosopher Nozick, for instance. 2005, Serge-Christophe Kolm, Macrojustice: The Political Economy of Fairness, page 373:
   • In minarchy the owner of a property is the sole owner of the private propety and what comes out of it. 2011, Farhoud Rastegar, From Bushman to Bush: As History Has Brought Us to a Point of No Return, page 101:

Forms

Deriveds

minarchical

Relateds

minarchist · minarchism

Synonyms

night watchman state

Translations (2)

pl minarchia (government with the least necessary power over its citizens) · pt minarquia (government with the least necessary power over its citizens)