[notahacker]

'Liberal' has many and varying definitions, but the notion that a polity is liberal if some of the bodies imposing repressive values and restraining trade aren't nation states doesn't have much currency outside the more perverse end of US anarchocapitalism. I don't think anybody whose reason hasn't been consumed with fanatical hatred of the IRS considers civil war between brutal local warlords to be a 'liberal and democratic construction'.