Libertarianism focuses on the notion that justice consists in the protection of liberty and, thus, it is the responsibility of the government to ensure that each citizen may use his liberty as he sees fit and without infringing on the rights of others. Hospers, author of “Libertarianism: A Political Philosophy for Tomorrow,” advocates a Millian sense of liberty, as he believes that each individual should be free from government interference and allowed to exercise complete control over his or her own body. Nozick, another advocate of libertarianism, holds that a distribution is just if everyone has that to which he is entitled; thus, we have a right to any good that came into our possession as long as the acquisition and maintenance of that good is in a just manner. This Entitlement Theory of Holdings set forth by Nozick offers a historical account of the original acquisition of property and thus a view of justice which distinguishes between patterned and nonpatterned principles of justice. Patterned principles of justice specify that a “distribution is to vary along with some natural dimension, weighted sum of natural dimensions, or lexicographic ordering of natural dimensions” (Libertarianism). In the realm of distributive justice, though, “almost every suggested principle of distributive justice is patterned: each according to his moral merit, or needs or marginal product… and so on” (Libertarianism). It is through the implementation of these principles of justice that liberty, most notably economic liberty, causes an upset in patterns of distributive justice, for to maintain a pattern requires that individual rights are systematically violated to ensure the pattern is preserved.