[JohnGalt]

The Christian tradition give the state the power to enforce capital punishment and make war (though it has lots of rules about that and there is a grand difference between Just War, Orthodox Christians, and neoconservative rules on that subject.)

Other than that, Christ simply did not think a sound survival strategy was constant revolution, though he did tell us to arm ourselves.

That said, "libertarian political philosophy"-- I disagree Cracker libertarianism is very much in line with the Christian world view; at least I have found no problems thus far. Your immediate focus on prosecuting crime is rather odd.

English law, unlike your more Prussian example, until relatively recently, believed that law enforcement was generally a private function, though a Sheriff could get involved in 'capital cases' (murder, rape and 'grand theft.') Wants law became a 'common' of course they needed stuff to go after in order to rationalize their growth so socially less tolerable things were targeted.

Rather, in the eyes of the Christian Cracker libertarian, the state exists to preserve our liberties and rights (yes our rights but we mean something different than Frenchie) which includes namely property rights, the right to exclude anyone we want or admit anyone we want.

Thus a practical working explanation for the right to life would be the right for the community to prohibit an abortionist from selling his wares in town.

[traditionalist]

The Christian tradition give the state the power to enforce capital punishment and make war (though it has lots of rules about that and there is a grand difference between Just War, Orthodox Christians, and neoconservative rules on that subject.)

The Christian tradition gives the state much more power than that. Read Acquinas.

[traditionalist]

Thus a practical working explanation for the right to life would be the right for the community to prohibit an abortionist from selling his wares in town.

By that same argument, the community could prohibit a drug dealer from selling his wares in town, which is fine by me, but somehow I think a libertarian would reject this conclusion.

BTW, what if the abortionist is conducting abortions on his own property which is close to the community?